Estonia
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11 January 2012PresseuropDie Tageszeitung
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Railways
Greater European network on track
20 October 2011PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Estonia-Russia
The apartments that lead to Schengen
28 September 2011Postimees Tallinn -
19 September 2011Postimees Tallinn
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1991-2011
A Baltic triumph
19 August 2011IQ The Economist Vilnius -
Political fiction
Onwards to Europe 2.0
30 May 20117Die Welt Berlin -
Estonia
Some nationality disorder
5 May 20113Postimees Tallinn -
Labour market
Work in Germany? Yes, maybe
29 April 20111Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Estonia
Expats reluctant to return
21 April 20112Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn -
Urbanism
Digging deep for a better life
14 April 20111Polityka Warsaw -
Nuclear energy
Chernobyl to Fukushima – media gets it wrong
17 March 2011Postimees Tallinn -
Estonia
Voters re-elect Austerity Ansip
7 March 2011PresseuropPostimees -
Two towns in Europe
Valka-Valga, two sides to the story
16 February 2011Postimees Tallinn -
Estonia
The most Soviet Western state?
26 January 20113Postimees Tallinn -
21 January 2011Der Standard Vienna
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Estonia
Tallinn builds up cyber army
14 January 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Baltic states
Where minorites must hold their tongue
6 January 20114De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Single Currency
Has Estonia boarded a sinking ship?
3 January 2011PresseuropPresseurop -
Pharmaceutical industry
European guinea pigs
23 December 2010PresseuropVanity Fair -
Baltic states
Following Estonia’s lead
13 December 2010Atgimimas Vilnius -
European of the Week
No downfall for Bruno Ganz
8 October 2010România libera Bucharest -
12 August 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung
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11 August 2010Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn
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Communications
OSCE warns of shrinking media freedoms
30 July 20101PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Baltic states and the crisis (4)
Estonia, top of the class
19 May 20103Hospodářské noviny Prague -
Universities
Estonians see spies everywhere
6 May 20101PresseuropEesti Päevaleht -
Baltic states and the crisis (1)
Running for the euro
14 April 2010Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
12 April 20104Presseurop
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19 March 2010PresseuropPostimees
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Single currency
Euro, go east!
18 February 20101Handelsblatt Düsseldorf -
Baltic Sea
The big cleanup begins
11 February 2010PresseuropHelsingin Sanomat -
3 February 20102Postimees Tallinn
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ESTONIA
Get an e-life
9 December 20091Eesti Ekspress Tallinn -
Central and Eastern Europe
World Bank's forsees debt gloom
4 December 2009PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Central and Eastern Europe
Some post-communist dos and don'ts
2 December 2009Hospodářské noviny Prague -
EU-Russia
Sweden pushed onto Baltic chessboard
18 November 2009PresseuropSvenska Dagbladet -
6 November 2009PresseuropDagens Nyheter
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Citizenship
Doing away with the national question
7 October 2009Postimees Tallinn -
Shipping
Estonia turns its back on the sea
29 September 2009PresseuropPostimees -
Estonia
A man's place is now in the home
22 September 2009Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn -
Czech Republic
Spies still come in from the cold
28 August 20091Respekt Prague -
21 August 2009Revista 22 Bucharest
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Regional cooperation
Baltic Blues
17 August 2009Polityka Warsaw -
Financial Crisis
Surprising change for developing countries
13 August 2009PresseuropCapital -
Central and Eastern Europe
Lean years are back
12 August 2009Gandul Bucharest -
National identity
Estonia's solidarity deficit
29 July 20091Postimees Tallinn -
1 July 2009PresseuropEesti Päevaleht
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Estonia
A monumental fall out
22 June 2009PresseuropPostimees -
18 June 2009Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn
Following a trend that has intrigued local authorities and real estate agents, more and more Russians are buying apartments without ever setting foot in them. The reason for this strange behaviour is that owning a home in Estonia makes it easier to apply for a Schengen visa. 
Since independence, Estonian film makers appear to be incapable of producing anything other than films where melancholy plays the leading role, remarks Postimees, which argues that a certain dolefulness has become the hallmark of culture made in Estonia. 
In August 1991, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia declared their independence from a collapsing USSR. Despite a few hiccups along the way, twenty years on they have definitively turned the page on Communism and come back to their roots in Europe. 
Forget the nation-state: Europe would be much better off if it were fundamentally reorganised – into powerful regions in the north and the Alps and picturesque bankrupts in the south 
Since 1991, Estonia has tens been home to tens of thousands of “non-citizens” — Russian-speakers who settled in Estonia in Soviet times. Their numbers are decreasing, but too slowly. Is this Moscow's fault? 
On 1 May, the doors will open wide for Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans now free to work in Germany. But no one expects a stampede. Quite the opposite: German companies will have to woo the new guest workers ardently and assiduously. 
Recently launched by the government in Tallinn, an initiative that aims to bring home some of the 200,000 Estonians who have recently left the country to work abroad has been greeted with scepticism by expatriates from the Baltic state. 
From the eastern Baltic to the western straits, Scandinavians are building everything underground: roads, tunnels, and even huge shopping malls. Polish weekly Polityka reports. 
In 1986, Estonians were Soviet citizens and had no idea what was going on at Chernobyl. Today they are members of the European Union, but whether they are better informed is questionable, writes the daily Postimees. 
A walk from Valka to Valga not only takes you from Lativa to Estonia, but you also have the impression of traveling from one era to another. Postimees reports on a quarrel between the old guard and the new in one of Europe’s far-flung border towns. 
With the adoption of the euro on 1st January, Estonia, now a member of NATO, the EU and the Eurozone, became the most "Western" of the Nordic countries. However, the country’s drive to join Europe has been marked by political reflexes reminiscent of the Soviet past that it would prefer to set aside.
The linguistic rights of the sizeable Russian and Polish minorities in the three former Soviet republics, which joined the EU in 2004, are hardly recognised. A Dutch journalist deplores governmental intransigence on the issue of languages. 
On 1st January, Estonia will become the first Baltic state to join the euro zone — a development which an Estonian political scientist believes will offer a strong motivation to neighbouring Latvia and Lithuania to follow in its footsteps and also encourage more cooperation between the three countries.
Every year the European Film Academy honours a practitioner of the “seventh art” for the entirety of his or her past work. This year the lifetime achievement award goes to Swiss actor Bruno Ganz. 
In the Estonian town of Narva, situated on the Russian border, the coming changeover to the euro (on 1 January, 2011) has already created discord among the members of the Russian-speaking community. It would seem that Tallinn authorities somehow neglected to inform them of this event, which has pleased bankers no end, as they extract a maximum of profit from the confusion surrounding the exchange rates of the crown, the euro and the rouble. 
Notwithstanding the crisis, Estonia will almost certainly be the next state to join the eurozone in January 2011. In a bid to understand the secret of its success, Czech daily Hospodářské noviny examines the country's social and economic model. 
The worst is over for the Baltic States. For the first time since the beginning of the financial crisis, Moody's has upped its ratings outlooks for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia: a sign that the three republics will soon be able to join the eurozone.
Several countries are on tenterhooks about the latest developments in the Greek economy, either because their economies are closely bound up with Athens’ or because they fear the Greek crisis will delay their accession to the eurozone.
With its monetary union weakened by the crisis, the EU shouldn’t be afraid of enlarging the eurozone. Handelsblatt recommends rapidly integrating the more dynamic economies to the east, which have been scorned for too long as the weakest links in the system. 
At the border crossing in the town of Narva, people queue for over two days to take advantage of cheaper petrol prices in Russia. With the Estonian economy faltering, small-time smuggling is on the rise. 
In politics, health care, education, Estonia has been in the vanguard of internet use in every area of public life for years now. But all this e-life could be taking its toll on real life, cautions an editorialist. 
Jobs, government, infrastructure: in the wake of 1989, the countries of the former communist block had to re-invent themselves. As Czech daily Hospodářské Noviny notes, the different strategies they chose resulted in some initiatives that were well-prepared and some that were wholly unsavoury. 
Now that the borders have disappeared and its powerful Russian minority is calling for enfranchisement, Estonia is rethinking its concept of “cohabitation”. Postimees argues that this is something all countries should do, especially in light of latter-day immigration. 
Being a house husband is not always great fun for an Estonian. The economic crisis, which has mainly hit male occupations, is redefining roles within the family. Perhaps the time has come to strike a new balance, posits the Estonian daily Eesti Päevaleht. 
On the 17 August 2009, two members of the Russian embassy in Prague were charged with spying and expelled from the country. The very next day, two Czech diplomats working in Moscow were sent home in retaliation. This episode illustrates the lingering tensions between Russia and ex-satellite countries that have since joined the EU and NATO. 
The 23rd August is "European Day of Rememberance for the Victims of Nazism and Stalinism", to condemn totalitarianism. A noble cause perhaps, but one which has provoked controversy in Russia, where Stalin is still a national hero. They point out that Russia in fact saved many lives threatened by Nazism. Yet the Russians remain cagey about their Soviet Union archives, a stumbling block for ex-Soviet states to really understand their totalitarian pasts. 
Several years ago, the Baltic became the EU’s internal sea. But what kind of a sea is it? A shallow, closed, poor, one that divides rather than connects. On economic as well as environmental issues, the future of the Baltic states is bound in cooperation with neighbouring countries and with the European Union. 
The financial crisis in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, which until recently were posting record growth rates, has forced governments to slash budgets, starting with public service salaries — and cabinet ministers are leading the way. 
On national holidays, Estonians band together under the flag, but everyday life in their country is often marked by a reluctance to communicate with strangers. For a columnist in the daily Postimees, it is a lack of sociability that has made Estonia one of the unhappiest countries in Europe. 
In 2011, Tallinn becomes European capital of culture. Without money and above all without any ideas, all the Estonian capital has been doing is to keep a jealous on fellow Baltic capital Vilnius, in Lithuania, which has organised this event successfully.