Three US senators visited Estonia this week to assure Estonians that the United States and NATO remain committed to their defence. John McCain, a Republican senator of Arizona; Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator of South Carolina; and Amy Klobuchar, a Democratic senator from Minnesota, visited Estonia at the time when the small NATO members have […]
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The Estonian embassy in Minsk, Belarus, is taking over the mandate of the NATO contact point embassy from Latvia. The contact point embassy operates as a channel for disseminating information about the role and policies of NATO, helps establish and strengthen contacts in the host country, relays information and gives overviews of developments related to
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As a member of the EU, Finland cannot stay on the sidelines when the security of its near neighbourhood or regions elsewhere in Europe is in danger. Finland welcomed the restoration of the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In terms of security policy, this was seen as a positive trend in the context of
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According to a public opinion survey on national defence in which 1,203 residents of Estonia were interviewed, 89% of the population support Estonia’s NATO membership. That’s a significant jump from May 2000, when only 54% of the people were fond of the country being a member of the alliance. According to the survey, NATO membership
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the largest military alliance in the world, organised its largest cyber defence exercise in Estonia. Named Cyber Coalition 2016, the three-day event in the first days of December attracted more than 700 cyber defenders and legal experts, government officials and military officers, academics and industry representatives, participating from dozens
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The Estonian president, Kersti Kaljulaid, said in a response to an EurActiv article that the Baltics were not afraid of migrants or Russians as the article claimed. Kaljulaid wrote the open letter response to the EurActiv article, “The Brief: Europe’s elites rush to hide behind Mutti’s skirts”, that analysed the German chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision
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France is to send five Leclerc tanks, 12 infantry combat vehicles and 300 troops to Estonia next year. The deployment was confirmed by the French defence minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, to his Estonian counterpart, Hannes Hanso, at a meeting of the security forum in Halifax, Canada. “We recognise that we have to invest in the
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The United Kingdom will next year deploy batteries of high precision long-range missiles on the border between Estonia and Russia; the deployment is the first of its kind since the collapse of the Soviet Union. According to the British media, the rockets will be moved to Estonia next year amid fears the Russian president, Vladimir
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NATO has put 300,000 ground troops on high alert amid rising tensions between Russia and the Baltic states; according to the alliance’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO hopes to speed up the response time of its troops to be able to react to a combat situation more effectively. Stoltenberg told the Times newspaper that the alliance
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The United Kingdom is to deploy its tanks and drones in Eastern Europe, in addition to 800 troops; this is to be the first of several moves by NATO to help deter any potential Russian threat to the region. According to the UK defence secretary, Michael Fallon, the UK troops will deploy in the spring
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