Electricity grid distributor Elering has reported 2019 net profits of EUR 32.8 million, up from EUR 18.6 million in 2018, in part aided by lower financial expenses. The company’s main focus last year was the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Estonia and Finland. The company’s profits from ordinary activities, according to the audited report for 2019…
A total of 2,059 newly unemployed persons registered with the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund (Tootukassa) last week. According to Deputy Secretary General on Labor and Employment Policy Sten Andreas Erlich, the labor market is deteriorating. 40,125 people were registered unemployed in Estonia as of March 29. The number of newly registered unemployed last week was…
Many major banks in Estonia have not changed interest rates on home loans amid the coronavirus pandemic to date, though they are paying more attention to those customers who are seeking homeloans at a time when many planned purchases have been put on hold. One bank, Luminor, says it has cut its interest rates. “A…
The lifting of restrictions implemented for the duration of the emergency situation will be based not on economic but rather health-based logic, and as there is currently no certainty regarding how the coronavirus will continue to spread, no strategy exists for exiting the standstill either, said Ministry of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Deputy Secretary General…
The government decided on March 19 to launch a EUR 2-billion package of measures to boost the economy and mitigate the effects of the crisis caused by the coronavirus, Prime Minister Juri Ratas (Center) said. “The members of the government gave their approval to a package of measures of EUR 2 billion, which represented nearly…
Several supermarket chains across Estonia have reduced their opening hours to help stop the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and have introduced measures to limit the exposure of their staff. All Rimi stores across Estonia will be open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., the retailer has announced. “We have made the decision to reduce…
Approximately 80 workers will be made redundant when AS Kunda Nordic Tsement cement company stops producing clinker later this month. The decision was taken by the supervisory board after a surge in the price of CO2 emissions. The plant in Laane-Viru County uses old production technology, which creates a relatively high level of carbon emissions.…