Estonia
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Estonia: Shale is chic
29 April 20131368 IQ The Economist Vilnius -
Estonia: ‘Citizen Parliament’s 15 proposals to political leaders’
8 April 201376PresseuropEesti Päevaleht -
NATO: ‘Empty threats’
2 April 2013811PresseuropPolska The Times -
Baltic: Chemical threat lurking beneath the sea
26 March 201380513 Uważam Rze Warsaw -
Czech Republic: A playground for ‘hacktivists’
13 March 2013714 Respekt Prague -
Estonia: After the e-government, here come the e-citizens
8 March 20132064 Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn -
Estonia: Free travel is no paradise
19 February 201327112 Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius -
Estonia: Crowdfunding — the future of banking
8 February 20133097 European Voice Brussels -
Estonia: Power to the people – sort of
8 January 20134822PresseuropPostimees, Eesti Päevaleht -
The front page: 7 December 2012
7 December 2012PresseuropJurnalul Naţional, Financial Times Deutschland, Financial Times Deutschland & 5 others -
Estonia: Estonian banks profit from Greek crisis
8 November 2012617PresseuropEesti Ekspress -
Estonia: Austerity as a way of life
13 September 201210616 Eesti Ekspress Tallinn -
Estonia: Young democracy beset by scandals
4 September 2012866 Postimees Tallinn -
Ways out of the crisis (2/3): Estonia — subsidised austerity
27 June 20127513 Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn -
Estonia: Krugman blog makes president lose plot
8 June 20124510PresseuropPostimees -
Estonia: Two-thirds reject privacy-busting Facebook
28 May 20122226 Postimees Tallinn -
Eastern Europe: Fall-out amongst Baltic neighbours
17 April 20121644 Veidas Vilnius -
Editorial: Europe and Putin 2.0
2 March 2012476Presseurop -
Estonia: SS to be given “freedom fighter” status
11 January 2012PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Railways: Greater European network on track
20 October 2011PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Estonia-Russia: The apartments that lead to Schengen
28 September 2011104 Postimees Tallinn -
Cinema: Estonia’s signature melancholy
19 September 201163 Postimees Tallinn -
1991-2011: A Baltic triumph
19 August 2011143 IQ The Economist Vilnius -
INTERVIEW: Paolo Rumiz: “The heart of Europe beats in the East”
5 August 2011PresseuropBlog -
Political fiction: Onwards to Europe 2.0
30 May 20112467 Die Welt Berlin -
Estonia: Some nationality disorder
5 May 2011573 Postimees Tallinn -
Labour market: Work in Germany? Yes, maybe
29 April 20111571 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
Estonia: Expats reluctant to return
21 April 20111342 Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn -
Urbanism: Digging deep for a better life
14 April 20112811 Polityka Warsaw -
Nuclear energy: Chernobyl to Fukushima - media gets it wrong
17 March 2011104 Postimees Tallinn -
Estonia: Voters re-elect Austerity Ansip
7 March 2011PresseuropPostimees -
Two towns in Europe: Valka-Valga, two sides to the story
16 February 201189 Postimees Tallinn -
Estonia: The most Soviet Western state?
26 January 2011633 Postimees Tallinn -
OLIVER: Hangover
21 January 201125 Der Standard Vienna -
Estonia: Tallinn builds up cyber army
14 January 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Baltic states: Where minorities must hold their tongue
6 January 2011814 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Single Currency: Has Estonia boarded a sinking ship?
3 January 201113PresseuropPresseurop -
Pharmaceutical industry: European guinea pigs
23 December 2010160PresseuropVanity Fair -
Baltic states: Following Estonia’s lead
13 December 201070 Atgimimas Vilnius -
European of the Week: No downfall for Bruno Ganz
8 October 201019 România libera Bucharest -
Fires: The ghost of Chernobyl again floating over Europe
12 August 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Estonia: Crowns, euros, roubles… and chaos
11 August 201035 Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn -
Communications: OSCE warns of shrinking media freedoms
30 July 20101PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Statistics: Tonight's blog isn't about Israel
2 June 2010PresseuropBlog -
Baltic states and the crisis (4): Estonia, top of the class
19 May 2010273 Hospodářské Noviny Prague -
Universities: Estonians see spies everywhere
6 May 20101PresseuropEesti Päevaleht -
Baltic states and the crisis (1): Running for the euro
14 April 201017 Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
Greece: Athens’ neighbours anxious about aftermath
12 April 20104 Presseurop -
Estonia: Blank front pages fight anti-press laws
19 March 2010PresseuropPostimees -
Single currency: Euro, go east!
18 February 2010231 Handelsblatt Düsseldorf
Estonia has an asset that enables it to avoid dependence on Russian gas: shale oil. In spite of the pollution it generates, the country has chosen to continue to use and develop this home-grown fuel source. 
Thousands of tonnes of chemical weapons sunk in the Baltic Sea after WWII pose a lethal hazard to humans and the environment. After 70 years at the bottom of the sea, the corroded containers risk leaking deadly poisons, warns a Polish journalist. 
The Czech Republic was targeted in a string of cyber attacks last week. Why? As a small country with a relatively developed Internet infrastructure, it is an ideal testing ground for hackers who are planning to hunt for bigger prey, says an Internet expert. 
After Estonia's efforts to push its government administration online, the country now plans to assign a digital identity to all its citizens. The goal? To help cement ties with business talent – both Estonians abroad and foreign expatriates with links to the east European nation. 
On January 1, some residents of Tallinn saw one of their dreams come true, when they were granted the right to use public transport for free. However, not everyone is happy with the measure. For some, it appears to be a rushed move designed to win favour with voters ahead of autumn local elections. 
With the global credit crunch slowing bank loans to a trickle, “peer-to-peer” lending is filling the void, providing much-needed small businesses finance and better returns for investors. Now, this revolution is providing a lifeline to a Baltic country's business sector. 
The most recent entrants in the Eurozone have come to terms with the austere management of the country’s finances and their own personal spending, to the point where not putting a penny astray has become a point of national pride. 
Tallinn has been swept by a series of similar scandals. Politicians take their time responding, preferring to keep a low profile for fear of being caught up in their turn. In the meantime, the institutions that are meant to oversee checks and balances in Estonia are struggling to gain credibility and finding it hard to make progress. 
Estonia, the model of a country that slashed government spending, only managed to overcome the serious 2007-2009 crisis thanks to well-timed funds from the EU. 
Although they pride themselves on being a wired nation, statistics show that only a third of Estonians have registered with the leading social network. For the other two thirds, it is a question of privacy. 
Historically linked by a common destiny, and often mistaken for one another, the national interests of the three small former Soviet states can, on occasion, come into conflict. Today the influence of Scandinavia has proved to be a force that is bringing them together. 
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. - 1 of 2
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