Ben Bathke

Ben Bathke is a Berlin-based entrepreneurial multimedia journalist covering technology, media innovation, migration and foreign policy for Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international broadcaster, and other global media outlets. His focus area is the Baltic-Nordic region. In 2018, Ben was a Google News Initiative fellow. During his five years in North America, he was a Global Journalism Fellow and worked for both a tech startup and Washington University in St. Louis. You can find him and his work on Twitter @BenjaminBathke.

Estonia’s historic teachers’ strike ends after the trade union accepts the government’s minimum compromise

Ben Bathke / February 1, 2024

Many teachers in Estonia earn less than €2,000 a month before tax – despite the EU country’s poster child status in Pisa test results; low pay and overtime were the main reasons why more than 10,000 teachers walked out for nine consecutive days before the seven-day strike, which was unique in both its duration and […]

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Jonatan Vseviov: “Our policy is aimed at getting Russia back into Russia”

Ben Bathke / July 10, 2023

The secretary general of the Estonian foreign ministry, Jonatan Vseviov, says in an interview with Estonian World that every country can do their bit to help stop Russian aggression against Ukraine and everybody needs to reinforce the message that the cost of continuing the aggression far outweighs the cost of stopping it. Having played a

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