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Andrei Tuch: Welcome to Estonia’s new neo-Nazi government

Andrei Tuch / March 12, 2019

If the Centre-EKRE-Isamaa coalition comes true in Estonia, the far-right EKRE will hold prime minister Jüri Ratas by the balls and dictate the coalition’s policy, Andrei Tuch writes. The Estonian parliamentary election resulted in what initially looked like a rather worrying but non-apocalyptic result. Out of the 101 seats in the Riigikogu, the pro-business, pro-European […]

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A record 27 women elected to the Estonian parliament

Annika Arras / March 9, 2019

This year, the International Women’s Day came five days earlier than the traditional date – on the basis of the election results, it can be said the 27 mandates out of 101 given to women are a record of all the elections after Estonia regained its independence. Moreover, for the first time, a woman, Kaja

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LIVE BLOG: Estonian World brings you Estonian election results

Silver Tambur and Sten Hankewitz / March 3, 2019

Estonian World brings you the results of the Estonian parliamentary election of 2019 in a live blog, starting around 8:00 PM EET (6 PM UK time; 1 PM ET). The deputy editor-in-chief of Estonian World, Sten Hankewitz, will also be live-tweeting the results. 05:15 We’re wrapping up here for now – the live blog was updated and

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Kristi Raik: The rise of Estonia’s radical right

Kristi Raik / February 26, 2019

The rise of the right-wing party, EKRE – an intolerant, xenophobic, populist and Eurosceptic party – in Estonia is putting in question the country’s political landscape ahead of the parliamentary election in March. The rise of the populist radical right is reshaping the political landscape across Europe. Estonia, which is preparing for the parliamentary election on 3

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Pre-election political debate on the future of Estonia

Estonian World / February 18, 2019

Powered by Estonian World and the Telliskivi Creative City, the Estonishing Evenings event series hosts an English-language political debate on 18 February; the debate is open to the public. On 3 March, Estonian citizens will go to the polls to elect the country’s next parliament. Estonian citizens living abroad can cast their votes in advance.

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Eerik-Niiles Kross: the idea to declare Russian Orthodox Christmas a national holiday is more dangerous than it seems

Eerik-Niiles Kross / January 11, 2019

The mayor of Tallinn, Taavi Aas (the Centre Party), has come up with the idea to declare the Russian Orthodox Christmas (celebrated according to the Julian calendar on 7 January) a national holiday in Estonia; security expert and a former MP Eerik-Niiles Kross (Reform) writes that the idea is more dangerous than it seems. The

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Kristina Kallas: Estonia’s second silent surrender

Kristina Kallas / December 30, 2018

Kristina Kallas, the chairwoman of Estonia 200, a new political party aiming to get elected to the Estonian parliament on 3 March 2019, writes that, contrary to what some political forces preach, Estonia’s independence is guaranteed by its membership in the EU and NATO, and fearmongering will lead to a broken society. With the upcoming

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A free ticket to ride: how Estonia is leading the world in a free transit revolution

Abdul Turay / November 7, 2018

The freelance journalist and a member of the Estonian Centre Party, Abdul Turay, asserts that Estonia’s free public transport system, first introduced in Tallinn in 2013, has justified itself and abolishing the project would be an act of folly. The editors of this portal asked me to rewrite this article as an op-ed – I

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Second pension pillar reform: the first meaningful campaign promise for 2019

Andrei Tuch / November 1, 2018

The Estonian parliamentary elections are coming up in March, and the campaign promise season has just geared up with the first policy point worth talking about: the shutdown of the mandatory retirement savings scheme and the return of the money to the citizens – to invest privately or do with as they please. The idea

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