Growing need for capacity, the presence of NATO allies and increasingly more complex weapons systems are putting pressure on Estonia’s defense sector and the three or four private companies, which conduct maintenance work. The state is investing EUR 200 million over the next decade to improve the situation. The Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) uses the…
Chemical company Chemi-Pharm has received a building permit for the construction of a pharmaceutical plant in the territory of the Saku municipality near Tallinn and plans to start construction this year. The comprehensive solution for the three-story, 8,500-square meter pharmaceutical plant integrated with the existing building of Chemi-Pharm was prepared by Innopolis Insenerid OU, spokespeople…
The bill of Estonia’s state budget for 2022, according to which the revenues of the state budget total EUR 13.13 billion, expenditures amount to EUR 13.64 billion and investments will be made in the amount of EUR 716 million, passed the first reading in the Riigikogu on October 20. The tax burden next year will…
In a recent blog post published at the end of September, Statistics Estonia analyzed data from the Unemployment Insurance Fund and larger job advertisement portals and compared the wages offered in job advertisements with the data submitted to its wage comparison application. It was found that there were big pay gaps between men and women…
Land acquisition for Rail Baltic is five years behind schedule, a new report by the National Audit Office (NAO) shows. So far, only a quarter of the land needed has been purchased by the state. Only 6% of land has been acquired in Harju County, the most populated. The report said this was “worrying” in…
The coalition parties, Reform and Center, reached agreement in principle on measures to alleviate soaring electricity, natural gas and household heating inflation. The government plans to halve the electricity network fee until March 2022 and provide support to low-income households, though still needs confirmation from the competition authority watchdog that it can go ahead. Center…
One of the reasons Estonia is seeing such high electricity prices is that there are renewable energy projects, which haven’t been completed, head of Enefit Green Aavo Karmas has said. Enefit Green is a subsidiary of the state-owned Eesti Energia. “If today we had more wind, and also solar parks, then we wouldn’t see such…