The United Kingdom is going to send five warships to the Baltics to help defend NATO’s eastern flank; the country will also contribute troops to a new 6,000-strong NATO force. Michael Fallon, the UK defence secretary, said that increasing the country’s NATO contributions will send a strong message “to our enemies that we’re ready to […]
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The American, British and Finnish ambassadors to Estonia urge the parliament to do more about the spread of HIV in the country, saying the situation of the epidemic is “gravely concerning”. The US ambassador, James D Melville, Jr, the British ambassador, Chris Holtby, and the Finnish ambassador, Kristi Narinen, have written an open letter to
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NATO is to approve an expansion of its troop deployments in Eastern Europe, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing the alliance officials; the move comes after a global think tank said in an analysis that NATO was currently unable to defend the territory of its most exposed members, including Estonia. The WSJ said
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The Estonian global clean-up initiative, Let’s Do It! World, aims to bring together 150 countries all over the world for a massive waste clean-up on 8 September 2018; to kickstart the event, the organisers have launched a crowdfunding campaign. “With our crowdfunding campaign, we’re taking the first real step to make this big plan a
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Estonia has scored ninth in the world by economic freedom in the Heritage Foundation’s 2016 Index of Economic Freedom; compared with the last year, Estonia has dropped by one place. The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, says in its report that the Estonian economy continues to benefit from the government’s strong commitment to economic
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At the moment, NATO cannot successfully defend the territory of its most exposed members, including Estonia, RAND Corporation, a global policy think tank, says in its recent analysis. The think tank analysed a series of wargames conducted in the Baltics between the summer of 2014 and the spring of 2015, and concluded that as “currently
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Estonia has been listed as 23rd in the Corruption Perceptions Index 2015 by Transparency International, an organisation dedicated to uprooting corruption worldwide. Estonia has steadily improved its score in the past few years. Estonia’s 2015 score, which indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very
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Estonia has come 19th in this year’s Best Countries for Business list, compiled by the Forbes magazine, ahead of such economic giants as the United States, Japan and Israel, but behind its neighbours of Finland, Lithuania and Sweden. Forbes points out that the current Estonian government “has followed sound fiscal policies that have resulted in
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Estonia ranks seventh in the fifth annual EF English Proficiency Index, the ranking is out of 70 countries worldwide and is classified as a very high proficiency level. The seventh place this year is one ranking higher than last year, but still lower than the fourth place in 2013. Out of the 27 European countries
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Estonia has ranked 16th in the World Bank’s ease of doing business index, placing right after Germany and before Ireland. The ease of doing business index is topped by Singapore, which is, in turn, followed by New Zealand and Denmark. South Korea ranks fourth and Hong Kong fifth. In the World Bank’s index, economies are
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