Mild winters prevent bears from hibernating for long. Large numbers of beehives and silage bales have yet to be ravaged this year, but many beekeepers have given up on reporting bear damage due to the bureaucratic hassle involved in getting compensated. Estonia’s brown bears have woken up from hibernation. They’ve already been spotted on trail…
Tallinn is commissioning articles from BBC StoryWorks to market the city as a sustainable capital. The city sees this as an opportunity to attract companies interested in innovation, as well as investments and skilled workers to Tallinn. According to Krista Kampus, head of the EU and foreign cooperation department at Tallinn’s Strategy Center, the opportunity…
Consumer prices in Estonia rose by 5.04% YoY in February and by 1.3% compared to January, data from Statistics Estonia showed. In January, Estonia’s annual consumer price index (CPI) growth was 3.9%, ranking the country fourth in the eurozone in terms of inflation. In February 2023, the annual inflation rate was 4.2%. Lauri Veski, head…
Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur (Reform) said on February 19 that Estonia’s defense spending would be over 4% of GDP next year but could not give an exact figure. “I can confirm that next year’s sum will be well over 4%. But how much exactly depends on the economic forecast. We are in the final…
Estonian retail trade enterprises’ turnover totaled EUR 10.4 billion in 2024 – falling by 3% YoY, according to preliminary data from Statistics Estonia. The biggest decline of 4% was registered in the turnover volume of stores selling manufactured goods, Statistics Estonia analyst Johanna Linda Pihlak said according to a press release. In supermarkets, the volume…
Estonia has already allocated UAH 16 million for the restoration of a bridge damaged by a Russian air strike in Malyn, Zhytomyr region, Vitaliy Bunechko, the head of the Zhytomyr Regional Military Administration, has posted on Telegram. “Currently, the Estonian Centre for International Development (ESTDEV) paid for works worth almost UAH 16 million. This is…
Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur (Reform) and head of the Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) capacities development department Kaarel Maesalu said that the decision to give Estonia’s truck-towed howitzers to Ukraine did not harm the country defensive capacity. “Naturally, we made these decisions in cooperation with the Estonian Defense Forces and its commander. It follows our…