Territorial Defense Forces – Increasing importance and future prospects within the Czech Armed Forces

With the changing security environment in Europe, dictated mainly by Russia's expansionist ambitions, European armies are once again focusing on conventional warfare on the continent against a technologically and numerically superior enemy that...

Estonia’s local elections redraw power lines in Tallinn and beyond

Estonia’s local elections on 19 October reshaped the country’s political map, returning the Centre Party as the biggest single winner nationwide and in Tallinn – but handing control of most regional cities to the conservatives of Isamaa. Held...

Estonian-founded robotics company Starship to expand to US cities

Estonian-founded robot delivery company Starship has closed a USD50 million funding round, which the company is planning to use to scale autonomous delivery across cities in the United States. The company has now raised over USD280 million in...

'Everything on the farm is digital': Estonia helps Moldovan farmers cut out paperwork

"I am running around town with documents right now," Veaceslav Burlacu tells me over the phone in Cahul. He's a third-generation farmer from southern Moldova. As a little boy, he and his father would walk across the fields with a ruler to measure...

Estonian robotics firm Starship plots expansion across US cities

Estonian-founded robot delivery company Starship Technologies has closed a USD 50 million funding round, which it plans to use to scale up its autonomous delivery operations across cities in the United States. The company has now raised more than...

Estonia joins the Nuclear Alliance

Estonia is joining the European Union Member States’ nuclear energy cooperation format, the Nuclear Alliance (NA), announced the Estonian Ministry of Climate. The Nuclear Alliance was set up by France in 2023 to promote the interests of the...

Agreements reached on education and culture as Tartu coalition talks continue

The Reform Party and Isamaa continued coalition talks in Tartu on Friday with agreements reached on issues related to both education and culture. On Thursday, Isamaa's mayoral candidate Tõnis Lukas said that his party is prepared to give up the...

Rail Baltica Secures New EU Funding To Accelerate Regional Construction

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 25. This week, a high-level meeting took place in Vilnius between representatives of the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) and the Rail Baltica...

Stuudio TÄNA and Mark Aleksander Fischer to Curate the 2026 Tallinn Architecture Biennale on Affordability in Architecture

TAB 2022: Fungible / Non-Fungible Pavilion. Image © Tonu Tunnel Share Share Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or...

Spiros Stathoulopoulos’ The Megalomaniacs to premiere in Tallinn Black Nights’ Rebels with a Cause

24/10/2025 - The Greek-Colombian director of PVC-1 and Meteora returns with a bold, essayistic satire on sound, faith and vanity, starring Angeliki Papoulia Angeliki Papoulia and Jan Bijvoet in The Megalomaniacs Greek-Colombian filmmaker Spiros...

Thessaloniki’s Agora unveils the participants in the Thessaloniki Locarno Industry Academy and the Agora Short Film Lab

THESSALONIKI 2025 Agora by Vassilis Economou 24/10/2025 - The two signature industry programmes dedicated to emerging professionals from diverse backgrounds will welcome 17 participants this November The participants in the Thessaloniki Locarno...

Projects Selected for Works in Progress at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 2025

TALLINN: Works in Progress, showcasing films currently in production or postproduction and seeking sales agents or festival premieres, introduces 18 promising projects across three categories: Baltic Event Works in Progress, International Works in...

Estonia tops Central Europe in “brain business” index

A new index shows that 9.4 per cent of Estonian adults work in “brain business” roles – highly knowledge-intensive jobs in technology, ICT, advanced services, and the creative industries. This is the highest level in Central Europe, narrowly ahead...

China unveils 10 new immigration and exit-entry policy initiatives to boost regional mobility and development

閱讀中文版本 The new measures aim to enhance mobility across Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan; and facilitate travel for foreign visitors to China. China’s National Immigration Administration (NIA) has announced 10 new immigration and...

Estonia Steps Into EU Nuclear Cooperation Framework

(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 18. Estonia will officially join the European Union's Nuclear Alliance on October 20 during a meeting in Luxembourg, Trend reports. The move marks a significant step toward the country's goal...

Russia suspected of using MS Estonia wreck for Baltic Sea espionage

New evidence from a German investigative consortium has raised suspicions that Russia may have turned the wreck of the MS Estonia – the ferry that sank in 1994 killing 852 people – into a training ground for underwater surveillance operations...

Eesti 200 holding up Estonia's onshore wind support scheme

Coalition partner Eesti 200 is delaying Estonia's onshore wind subsidy reverse auction until the government decides how to support energy storage and offshore wind. Earlier this year, the government scrapped up to €2.6 billion in offshore wind...

A reform agenda for the single market

The EU needs faster growth. Productivity has stalled, energy prices remain high, and the bloc’s biggest economic asset – the single market – is incomplete. With the US and China both intervening in trade, protecting demand, and investing heavily...

Saatse Boot environmental assessment canceled to speed up bypass construction

On Wednesday, the Transport Administration canceled the planned environmental impact assessment for the Saatse Boot bypass following a decision from the government. The environmental impact assessment for the Saatse Boot bypass (the Värska –...

Azerbaijan–Estonia trade more than doubles

Baku, October 23, AZERTAC Mikayil Jabbarov, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Economy, met with Margus Tsahkna, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. Minister Jabbarov emphasized the role of reciprocal official visits, meetings, and business events in...