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    • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Governments need to become more productive

      A smarter and leaner public sector is essential amid tight budgets and rising demands

      A man in a face mask works on a computer
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Geopolitics
      Chinese ship becomes focus of inquiry into Baltic pipeline damage

      Finland looking at potential role of Hong Kong-registered container vessel

      An Estonian naval vessel conducts a survey of an undersea cable and gas pipeline after damage to the connection between Finland and Estonia under the Baltic Sea
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      ReviewFilm
      Smoke Sauna Sisterhood film review — magnificent visual poetry from Estonia

      Women’s conversations range from the chatty and humorous to the troubling

      Filmed from behind, a woman stands under a shower of water next to a window; other women are partly in view
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      EU energy
      Finland investigates potential sabotage to Baltic gas pipeline

      Helsinki also reports break in undersea data cable connecting it to Estonia

      Finland’s president, Sauli Niinistö, pictured in Portugal earlier this month
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      EU common budget
      Estonia ready to lose funding if Ukraine joins EU, prime minister says

      Kaja Kallas urges bloc to start work on overhauling budget to prepare for potential enlargement

      Kaja Kallas
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      FT SeriesExtreme renting
      Extreme renting: Estonia start-up boom fuels EU’s biggest cost rises

      High levels of home ownership in the Baltic nation mean rents are volatile to market changes and fuelled by expat workers

      Montage of Euro sign against Tallinn skyline
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Estonian PM Kallas urged to clarify husband’s Russian business ties

      Opposition politicians seek resignation of Baltic leader, who had called on EU companies to refrain from trade with Moscow

      Estonia’s PM Kaja Kallas, pictured with her husband Arvo Hallik in Tallinn in May
    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Western security commitments ‘blur’ Ukraine Nato membership debate

      Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas calls for ‘concrete steps’ towards Kyiv’s accession

      Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Europe Express
      How the EU trade agenda lags behind what was promised Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Estonia takes action on frozen Russian assets

      Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      InterviewWar in Ukraine
      Estonian PM pleads with companies to resist ‘ghost trade’ with Russia

      Kaja Kallas calls out local businesses over their ‘hidden’ support for Moscow

      Kaja Kallas
    • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
      Chinese politics & policy
      Chinese diplomat draws ire from Baltic nations over statehood remarks

      Beijing’s ambassador to France questioned legitimacy of countries formerly in the Soviet Union

      Lu Shaye
    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Estonia’s prime minister wins landslide election victory

      Poll result a triumph for Kaja Kallas, one of EU and Nato’s most pro-Ukraine voices

      Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas
    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Estonia PM urges allies to stay united in face of Russian aggression

      Kaja Kallas warns against appeasing Moscow in an effort to halt war in Ukraine

      Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas
    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why the EU’s public prosecutor wants a slice of the sanctions action Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter: the Estonian nationalists seeking power in Sunday’s election

      Laura Kovesi
    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why the EU’s ‘Zelenskyy’ summit may leave big problems unsolved Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter: Estonia’s spies paint a grim picture of Putin’s Russia

      Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy (left), French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a joint press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris
    • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      EU rips up Russia visa deal in victory for eastern member states

      Move in response to border countries’ security concerns met with caution from US officials

      Mateusz Morawiecki, Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, Kaja Kallas and Mette Frederiksen talk to media in Denmark
    • Tuesday, 23 August, 2022
      Alexander Dugin
      Estonia hits out at Russian claims over Daria Dugina killing

      Foreign minister calls Moscow’s claims that the alleged suspect fled to his country ‘a provocation’

      Investigators examine the road at the scene of the car bomb
    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Estonia removes Soviet-era tank memorial over Russian tensions

      Prime minister pledges to clear all such monuments from public spaces in Baltic country

      The T-34 Tank memorial in the Estonian town of Narva
    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Finland and Estonia urge EU to stop issuing tourist visas to Russians

      Helsinki says Russians are entering the country and then using its airports to fly elsewhere in the bloc

      Finland’s prime minister Sanna Marin
    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      Nato
      Estonia’s PM says country would be ‘wiped from map’ under existing Nato plans

      Kallas says alliance strategy would see Baltic states overrun in event of Russian invasion before being taken back

      Kaja Kallas, prime minister of Estonia
    • Saturday, 11 June, 2022
      Estonian PM set to form new coalition after conservative party joins talks

      Kaja Kallas cites ‘strong common ground’ with Pro Patria amid Russia’s war in Ukraine

    • Monday, 6 June, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Calls for ceasefire in Ukraine are ‘premature’, Estonia’s PM warns

      Kaja Kallas says it would be a ‘mistake’ to push Kyiv into a settlement with Moscow

      Kaja Kallas, Estonia’s prime minister, in London on Monday
    • Saturday, 4 June, 2022
      Estonian coalition collapses after tension over ‘core values’ escalates

      Prime minister accuses Centre party of failing to protect the country’s independence amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

      Prime Minister Kaja Kallas
    • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Europe’s new defence bloc: Nordics and Baltics unite in face of Russian threat

      Denmark’s vote to end EU opt-out and Nato bids by Finland and Sweden redraw regional security map

      A Swedish air force jet flies over the country’s strategically important island of Gotland
    • Sunday, 29 May, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Baltics attack Franco-German talks with Putin over Black Sea blockade

      Diplomatic initiatives by Paris and Berlin seen as ‘paving way for more violence’ as rift grows over best approach to end war in Ukraine

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