Opinion

Lisanna Kuningas, the operations manager of a hotel in Tallinn, offers some life hacks for navigating politeness in Estonian society. Estonians are often stereotyped as

This June, Tallinn becomes the heart of the Baltic LGBTQ+ community as it hosts the Baltic Pride 2026; returning to the Estonian capital under the

An Estonian entrepreneur and mother explains why she moved to the UK with her two daughters – arguing that Estonia’s birth-rate crisis is really a

Viljandi city government’s refusal to allow the Estonian LGBT Association to unfurl a rainbow-coloured fabric in Vabaduse Square on 1 June is not an act

Tallinn’s Old Town should be the city’s jewel; instead, too much of it feels hollowed out: overpriced, underused and increasingly outshone by Vilnius. Spring –

War in Ukraine and Trump’s USA may together create the perfect storm to revive Europe’s defence industry from decades of paralysis, as declining trust in

Estonia is treating pay transparency as a bureaucratic nuisance; for a country that prides itself on digital efficiency, that is not just weak – it

Strategic autonomy is no longer a matter of European ambition, but of European necessity; in a world of fading certainties and mounting Russian threats, the

Even as Estonia’s inflation rate eases, food prices remain stubbornly high, leaving many households feeling little relief at the supermarket checkout. Food prices remain among