Skip to main menu 14.09.26 NEWS ... Teachers and rescuers gathered outside the Riigikogu in Tallinn on Monday to demand higher public sector wages in the government's 2027 state budget.
14.09.26 NEWS ... Pärnu's former dairy plant site is set for a €50–60 million redevelopment featuring business spaces, entertainment and a multipurpose arena.
13.09.26 NEWS ... Despite EU plans to let local governments restrict short-term rentals where needed, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications sees no need for new limits in Estonia.
13.09.26 NEWS ... With new security features now available, the European Central Bank wanted to redesign euro banknotes, says designer Anne Pikkov. She represented Estonia on the jury that carried out the pre‑selection for the new euro banknote designs.
13.09.26 NEWS ... Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) ex-chief Martin Herem's selection as Estonia's next defense minister has some defense experts troubled over industry ties and procurement plans.
12.09.26 NEWS ... The government has approved amendments to the protection rules for Alutaguse National Park, aimed at merging existing protected areas and species habitats into a single functioning whole. The park will expand by 24,749 hectares, bringing its total area to 69,768 hectares.
12.09.26 NEWS ... The European Central Bank's latest rate hike is already reflected in the six‑month Euribor that shapes most Estonians' loan payments, meaning borrowers are unlikely to see higher monthly costs this year — but a spring increase could still push payments up.
12.09.26 NEWS ... Tallinna Vesi development manager Marti Vaksmann says that there are 3,000 kilometers of pipelines beneath Tallinn, including 50 kilometers of large pipes where a person can walk. He notes that being inside a wastewater collector is not the most pleasant experience, but it is part of the job.
12.09.26 NEWS ... New EU packaging rules could saddle micro‑businesses with heavy costs and bureaucracy when selling across borders, prompting the European Commission to signal it may allow flexibility for the smaller firms, a senior official said during a visit to Estonia.
12.09.26 NEWS ... Restaurant closures have become a near‑monthly occurrence this year, with Ülo in Tallinn's Kalamaja district the latest to shut down. Owners say soaring costs are pushing the industry to the brink, and many now view a cut to the sector's VAT rate as the only path to survival.
11.09.26 NEWS ... Defense industry company Krattworks has hired former Bank of Estonia Governor Madis Müller as a financial adviser.
11.09.26 OPINION ... Assessing recent developments, it is understandable why financial markets expect additional interest rate hikes from the European Central Bank to ensure inflation returns to the two percent target within a couple of years, Ülo Kaasik writes.
11.09.26 NEWS ... If no new generation is added in either country, Google's Finnish data centers investment could hike the price of electricity by half a cent per kilowatt-hour in Estonia, experts warn.
10.09.26 NEWS ... A new €800,000 state program to support Ida‑Viru women's entry into the labor market will spend over €615,000 on salaries and other staff-related costs, documents show.
10.09.26 NEWS ... The Education Ministry told unions it has no room in the state budget for a teacher pay raise, saying any increase would require cuts elsewhere. The Education Workers' Union warned that teachers are prepared to stage work stoppages.
09.09.26 NEWS ... Budget talks are continuing within the government. On the one hand, the government is seeking to keep the deficit below 4.5 percent, but ministers acknowledge there is little room for spending cuts.
09.09.26 NEWS ... Nearly 67,000 Estonian companies have yet to file their annual reports, but officials say those that are only a few months late are not at immediate risk of being removed from the Business Register.
09.09.26 NEWS ... Estonia's leaders say Russian grain exports through its ports are "not acceptable" and practically non‑existent, as the Baltic states discuss joint measures to curb transit of Russian and Belarusian grain.
09.09.26 NEWS ... The Environment Agency fields hundreds of requests a year to correct the locations of drilled wells on state maps, as registry data often has them in the wrong place.
09.09.26 NEWS ... On Wednesday, the Transport Administration will install a new bidirectional speed‑camera cabin at kilometer 78.6 of the Risti–Virtsu–Kuivastu–Kuressaare road, in Liiva village, Muhu municipality. Its purpose is to help ensure compliance with the 40 km/h speed limit and make road crossing safer for pedestrians.
08.09.26 NEWS ... In the second quarter of 2026, there were 8,363 job vacancies in Estonia. This is nearly 2,000 job vacancies fewer than in the second quarter last year, Statistics Estonia data reveals.
08.09.26 NEWS ... In Estonia, a nuclear power plant can only be built on the coast to ensure sufficient cooling water, but dozens of other requirements must also be met.
07.09.26 NEWS ... The rebrand of Finnish-owned Prisma supermarkets following the sale to the Coop chain starts this week in Estonia, affecting 13 supermarkets.
07.09.26 OPINION ... Cutting two thirds of LEADER funding reduces, along with the number of projects, local people's ability to influence the future of their region, writes Hendrik Johannes Terras.
07.09.26 NEWS ... In August, nearly 390,000 passengers passed through Tallinn Airport, which is the best monthly result in the airport's history and 16 percent more than at the same time last year.
07.09.26 NEWS ... The consumer price index (CPI) rose by 1.5 percent on year to August 2026, Statistics Estonia reported.
06.09.26 OPINION ... The lives of Estonian people will not be improved by Kristen Michal's sugar‑coating nor by Urmas Reinsalu's populism, writes Lavly Perling.
05.09.26 OPINION ... It is extremely cynical to hear concern about budget balance from those who themselves have been the architects of irresponsible decisions, writes Mart Võrklaev in response to Jüri Ratas' commentary "Growth bought with state debt will clip future prosperity."
05.09.26 OPINION ... Don't believe the coalition's latest assurances that taxes won't rise again or that the budget will magically balance thanks to some mysterious internal reserves. Budget arithmetic clearly shows these promises won't hold, writes Jüri Ratas.
05.09.26 NEWS ... On Friday, the Ministry of Regional Affairs and Agriculture announced a public written auction for the disposal of shares of the public limited company Eesti Post. The deadline for submitting bids is 27 November. The auction will sell 100 percent of Eesti Post's shares, with a total starting price of €52 million.
04.09.26 NEWS ... Fuel prices in Estonia are now fluctuating daily or even several times a day, driven more by an ongoing price war between filling station chains than by the Iran crisis.
04.09.26 NEWS ... Estonia should look to the United States for inspiration when building its economic environment, says Ain Hanschmidt, president of the Estonian Employers' Confederation.
04.09.26 NEWS ... Total industrial production rose by 2.3 percent at constant prices year‑on‑year in July, Statistics Estonia reported, with growth across all three sectors.
04.09.26 NEWS ... The runway at Kuressaare Airport on Saaremaa has reopened to aircraft and passengers after three weeks' closure for an upgrade.
04.09.26 NEWS ... Scam victims increasingly hang up on real police officers, convinced they're speaking to fraudsters, says Valmar Viitak, head of the Northern Prefecture's serious‑crimes unit.
03.09.26 NEWS ... European gas prices have surged to €75 per megawatt‑hour, reaching levels not seen since the 2022 energy crisis, with further rises possibly on the way.
03.09.26 NEWS ... At the end of August, Innovaatik — the company providing information‑system services to dental‑care providers — notified the police that their managed computer system had been repeatedly accessed illegally and patient personal data, including health data, had been downloaded. On Wednesday, police detained a 45‑year‑old Estonian citizen as a suspect.
03.09.26 NEWS ... The future increasingly belongs to hybrid plants incorporating energy storage technology, Estonia's transmission system operator Elering said.
03.09.26 NEWS ... Apartment associations should have more authority in regulating rental relationships, says the Estonian Union of Cooperative Housing Associations, pointing to New York as an example, where a co‑op board can even decide whether a specific long‑term tenant is acceptable.
03.09.26 NEWS ... Estonia's average monthly gross wage rose 5.5 percent on year to €2,243 in the second quarter of 2026, Statistics Estonia said Thursday.
03.09.26 NEWS ... Diesel prices at Estonian filling stations rose above the €2 per liter mark again on Wednesday at a time of soaring oil prices worldwide.
03.09.26 NEWS ... A company at the heart of a defense procurement scandal says it delivered the bulk of the munitions and could have met all its obligations had Estonia not ended the contract, Eesti Ekspress reported.
02.09.26 NEWS ... Current law does not allow government agencies to publish information on officials' vacation periods and their temporary substitutes on institutional websites, because vacation data constitute sensitive personal information, the Ministry of Justice says..
02.09.26 NEWS ... While cheaper in August year-over-year, electricity became noticeably more expensive in the second half of the month, while developments in the gas market are tending to keep electricity prices higher.
02.09.26 NEWS ... The number of people traveling to the United Arab Emirates has fallen dramatically since the start of the military conflict between the United States and Iran, said travel agent Mauri Saarend.
02.09.26 NEWS ... Latvian airline airBaltic will cut 11 direct routes from Estonia next summer, but the CEO of Tallinn Airport said not all the connections will disappear.
02.09.26 NEWS ... If the Health Insurance Fund (Tervisekassa) tries to reduce its expenses, it will likely have to do so by cutting services — which means longer waiting lists, says healthcare expert Andres Võrk.
02.09.26 OPINION ... For decades, IT needed little more than wifi and a laptop. Now the future is power plants, chip factories, satellites and data centers, says R2 tech columnist Kristjan Port.
01.09.26 NEWS ... Eesti 200 Riigikogu member Tanel Tein has defended a controversial online gambling tax cut, arguing it is too early to reverse the policy
01.09.26 NEWS ... While the tourism sector still has room for improvement, Saaremaa businesses and officials say the Western Estonian island has seen more visitors this summer.
