Tõnis Palts, businessman and member of the supervisory council of Estonian central bank, is proposing an action plan with 10 specific steps to be taken for reviving the Estonian economy. It was published in today's Eesti Päevaleht. 1st for Toys, Click here! Most recent (televised) economic debates tend ...

Despite the talks in every two-thee months about the recovery of Estonian economy, we still have to be ready for a long crisis, Edgar Savisaar, Tallinn mayor and chairman of Centre Party said at ETV morning program, ERR News writes. “ In every two-three months I’ve read such happy messages from the ...

The museum managed by the Hiiumaa Military History Society is located in Tahkuna. The crown jewel of the exposition is the BB-316 cannon barrel from the Tahkuna Kukeraba battery. The museum exposition covers Hiiumaa’s coastal defence structures, armaments, and ammunition. In a barracks atmosphere, visitors ...

TALLINN - Estonia's 2010 budget cleared its latest parliamentary hurdle with the completion of its second reading, with the final reading is expected to be held in early December, parliament said on Wednesday. Estonia is aiming at euro zone membership from Jan. 1, 2011 with a tight fiscal policy that ...

Le premier ministre belge Herman Van Rompuy a été choisi jeudi à Bruxelles. La Britannique Catherine Ashton va, elle, diriger la diplomatie européenne. C 'est le nouveau visage de l'Union européenne : le premier ministre belge Herman Van Rompuy a été désigné jeudi pour devenir le premier président permanent ...

The results of Swedish bank Swedbank AB (STO: SWED A) will only marginally be affected by the sale of its 13.2% stake in the exchange in Tallinn, spokesman Thomas Backteman told today Swedish newswire Nyhetsbyran SIX. Earlier on Wednesday, Swedbank said it had sold its minority holding to main owner, ...

Estonian real estate developer AS Merko Ehitus estimates that a deficit of new housing space has emerged at the apartments market in Estonia’s capital Tallinn and to ease that, it will build three new apartment buildings by summer 2009, public broadcasting ERR/LETA news portal reports. “The bad news ...

During the years 2007-2013, the foundation Enterprise Estonia will distribute a total of 200 million kroons in benefits for training courses to Estonian enterprises as well as foreign enterprises, Eesti Päevaleht/LETA writes. While earlier, the state tried to get foreign investments to Estonia with ...

Estonia is set to become the next euro member as years of fiscal prudence help the former communist state recover faster than neighboring Latvia and Lithuania, a World Bank economist said. “It’s doing everything it can to keep the deficit within 3 percent of GDP this year,” Thomas Laursen , the World ...

The fresh OECD economic forecast promises Estonia an economic growth by 2011, Äripäev.ee/LETA reports. OECD forecasts Estonia, a candidate state of the organisation, a GDP fall of 14.4% this year, 0.8% in 2010 and in 2011, Estonia should have an economic growth of 3.9%. The OECD forecast about the budget ...