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Finland and Estonia to build their own LNG terminals

October 24, 2014 Baltic Business News 0

Estonia and Finland are coming to an agreement over building a gas pipeline between the two countries and on building LNG terminals in both Estonia and Finland. […]

Lithuanian entrepreneurs moving businesses to Estonia in search of better tax environment

October 24, 2014 Baltic Business News 0

More and more Lithuanian entrepreneurs have decided to register holding companies in Estonia. According to experts, the reasons are Estonia’s stable tax system and zero income tax on reinvested profits, writes Äripäev. […]

Estonia to better mark border with Russia

October 22, 2014 ELTA EN 0

The Constitutional Committee of the Estonian parliament supported a law amendment that allows the government to determine the location of Estonian-Russian temporary control line, which creates prerequisites for marking it better, maintaining and guarding it more effectively, Public Broadcasting reports. […]

The Baltic states and Russian compatriots

October 21, 2014 Agnia Grigas 0

Since Russian military incursions into Crimea and Eastern Ukraine to protect Russian “compatriots”, Latvia’s and Lithuania’s Russian and Russian-speaking populations have been much discussed and cited as reasons for concern among the Baltic states and their allies. […]

Estonia would run out of gas in 5 days in case of Russian embargo

October 17, 2014 ELTA EN 0

The European Commission recommends Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland to start preparing for an emergency situation immediately since if Russian gas taps were turned off, Estonia, for example, would run out of gas in 4-5 days, Eesti Paevaleht writes. […]

Estonian and Finnish companies developing Ebola drug

October 16, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Estonian biotechnology company Icosagen will start developing a vaccine and a biological therapeutic against the Ebola virus together with the Finnish company FIT Biotech Oy, Eesti Paevaleht Online reports. […]

Lithuanian politicians react to Estonia’s same-sex partnership law: One area we do not wish to be Baltic leaders

October 9, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuanian politicians say they have no plans to follow Estonia‘s example in legalizing same-sex partnerships. […]

Estonia passes law allowing same-sex partnerships

October 9, 2014 The Baltic Course 0

The Estonian parliament, the Riigikogu, approved on Thursday a law allowing same-sex couples to register cohabitation, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports. […]

Baltics to cooperate on dealing with threats to internal security

October 9, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuanian Minister of the Interior Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas has set up a working group that will draft documents for the establishment of a pan-Baltic expert coordination committee. […]

Eesti Meedia Group set to buy owner of Lithuanian classifieds

October 7, 2014 BNS 0

Eesti Meedia Group, the owner of 15min.lt, one of the leading online news outlet in Lithuania, is buying Allegro Baltics from South African-owned Naspers. […]

EU says no to joint Estonian-Finnish LNG terminal project

October 2, 2014 Baltic Business News 0

EU has rejected the proposal to finance the development of joint LNG terminal projects proposed by the Estonian company Alexela Energia and Finland‘s Gasum Oy, writes Eesti Päevaleht. […]

Two options for Estonian economy: slow fadeout or risky development

September 28, 2014 Baltic Business News 0

Tallinn University of Technology professor Rainer Kattel writes in Postimees that because of the European debt crisis and the Ukraine crisis, the outlook for the Estonian economy remains bleak. […]

ECB President Mario Draghi and Bank of Lithuania Governor Vitas Vasiliauskas

ECB President Draghi in Vilnius: Lithuania would be disadvantaged among Baltics without euro

September 25, 2014 BNS 0

Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), has handed a symbolic “Euro Star” to Vitas Vasiliauskas, the governor of the central Bank of Lithuania, on the occasion of Lithuania’s upcoming accession to the euro area. […]

Russia expanding soft power, Estonian official says

September 24, 2014 News.err.ee 0

Head of Estonia‘s Foreign Affairs Committee Marko Mihkelson said that Russia‘s soft power policies were increasingly purposeful. […]

Lithuanian State Security Department warns ordinary citizens to beware of Russian spies

September 22, 2014 www.lrt.lt 0

The Lithuanian State Security Department has issued a warning about a significant surge in Russian intelligence activities in both Lithuania and other countries. The Department has even published a booklet, explaining ordinary citizens the aims and methods of foreign intelligence agencies. […]