Baltic States join the EU electricity grid, fully disconnected from Belarus and Russia
As of today, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are fully independent from Russia's and Belarus's electricity systems. They successfully integrated into the EU…
UN and Member States condemn US Executive Order imposing sanctions on the ICC
The Internation Criminal Court and many international leaders condemn the issuance by the US of an Executive Order seeking to…
Estonia: EU Commission preliminarily endorses 3rd RRF payment request for €122.3m
The European Commission has today endorsed a positive assessment of Estonia's payment request for €122.3 million in grants under the…
The EU sanctions three individuals for malicious cyber attacks against Estonia
The EU Council today adopted additional restrictive measures against three Russian individuals responsible for a series of cyberattacks carried out…
EUAA starts monitoring the application of the Common European Asylum System
The EUAA Monitoring Mechanism aims at enhancing the overall application of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) by EU Member…
EU Commission appoints coordinator to complete Baltic network synchronisation
Responding to urgent needs of the region, the European Commission has appointed expert Catharina Sikow-Magny as European Coordinator for the…
NATO launches ‘Baltic Sentry’ to increase critical infrastructure security
At the meeting in Helsinki, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced the launch of a new military activity by NATO…
Critical raw materials: EU Commission hosts Minerals Security Partnership (MSP)
The MSP is part of the EU's multilateral efforts to correct market imbalances on global raw materials markets and promote mutually beneficial…
EU Commission receives third RRF payment request from Estonia
The EU Commission has today received Estonia's third payment request under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), amounting to €122…
Estonia: EU Commission approves €2.6bn state aid for offshore wind energy
The European Commission has approved a €2.6 billion Estonian scheme to support renewable offshore wind energy to foster the transition…
EU electricity retail markets: ACER Country Sheets identify opportunities and threats
For the first time, ACER has published its Country Sheets on retail electricity markets across EU Member States and Norway.…
Estonia: EU Commission finds state aid to Tartu Agro incompatible with EU law
The EU Commission has concluded that by renting agricultural land at a rate below market price to Tartu Agro AS, an…
Several EU member states push for higher import tariffs on Russian goods
Despite sanctions, EU imports from Russia reached EUR 42 billion in 2023—over half the economic support the EU has provided…
NATO Secretary General visits a battlegroup protecting the eastern flank
During his first trip to the Eastern Flank of the Alliance since taking office, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met…
Eurojust: Drug investigators seize more than six million illegally exported pills
A criminal group that had set up an international smuggling route for prescription pills was taken down during a large-scale…
Joint statement on establishing the Minerals Security Partnership Finance Network
The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Australia, Canada,…
EU Commission proposes €120m support to farmers affected by adverse weather
Today, the EU Commission proposed to allocate €119,7 million from the agricultural reserve to directly support farmers from Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Italy, and Romania, who have been impacted…
New U.S.-led actions expand global commitments to counter commercial spyware
Ahead of a groundbreaking inaugural September 22 meeting on the margins of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), the Department of…
EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Nine Member States to receive technical support
The EU Commission will provide tailored support and expert advice to nine Member States through the Technical Support Instrument (TSI). This support will help…
Estonia: IMF staff completes 2024 Article IV Mission
Estonia's economy is caught in a prolonged recession. Against expectations of a rebound in the second half of last year,…
European elections: Preliminary results in Estonia
Preliminary results of the European elections in Estonia.
European elections 2024 background: Estonia country sheet
Find here information on electoral rules, poll opening and closing times and candidates for the 2024 European election in EU…
European Semester: EU Commission publishes social convergence analysis for seven Member States
The Commission has published a detailed country analysis in the areas of employment, skills and social inclusion for Bulgaria, Estonia, Spain, Italy, Lithuania,…
Estonia: EU Commission disburses the second RRF payment of €122m
Estonia's second request for payment of €122.3 million under the RRF covers 15 milestones and 3 targets in areas such as digital…
Estonia: IMF Staff Concluding Statement of the 2024 Article IV Mission
Recent shocks have triggered supply side disruptions and a large rise in inflation. Inflation has now eased, but price and…
EU Commission approves Estonia’s €122.3m recovery request
Today, the Commission has endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Estonia's second payment request for €122.3 (net of pre-financing) million…
Money laundering: Investigation against Russian-Eurasian criminal network and financial institution based in Malta
National authorities in Latvia, Germany, France, Italy and Malta have carried out over 100 searches in a large-scale operation against…
EU Commission provides financial assistance to Estonia to support the investigation of Balticconnector
To support Estonia in its ongoing investigation on the damage of the Balticconnector gas pipeline on 8 October 2023, the…
EU Commissioner Breton in Lithuania and Estonia to discuss the defence industrial strategy
Today, Commissioner Breton is travelling to Lithuania and Estonia to discuss the future EU defence industrial strategy with members of their governments.
President of Ukraine met with the Estonian PM in Tallinn
During his official visit to the Republic of Estonia, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Prime Minister of Estonia…
Finland, Estonia and Sweden emphasise the importance of resilient European submarine infrastructure
The telecommunications ministers of Finland, Estonia and Sweden stress that the resilience of critical underwater infrastructure is now more important…
EU Commission disburses first payment of €238.5m to Estonia under the RRF
Payments under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), are performance-based and depend on the implementation by Estonia of the investments and reforms…
Finland/Estonia: French Government on Balticconnector incident
On October 10, Finland announced that it had detected gas leaks on the Balticconnector gas pipeline as well as an…
Innovation: Netherlands, France, and Estonia secure 2023 Europol Excellence Awards
In the third edition of these prestigious awards, the Dutch Police, the French National Gendarmerie and the Estonian Police were…
Estonian PM Kallas to visit Finland
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas will visit Finland on Friday 29 September at the invitation of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo.…
EU Commission positively assesses Estonia’s request for €286m RRF disbursement
On 30 June 2023, Estonia submitted to the Commission a payment request based on the achievement of the 28 milestones…
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania synchronise power grid with European Continental Network
Under a joint declaration signed this morning by the three Prime Ministers, the deadline for synchronisation is brought forward from the end of…
Estonia: IMF Executive Board Concludes 2023 Article IV Consultation
After a swift rebound from the pandemic in 2021, Russia’s war on Ukraine has triggered a sharp and broad-based downturn…
EU Court of Justice: Judgment in Joined Cases C-6/21 P and C-16/21 P | Germany and Estonia v Pharma Mar and EU Commission
Based on the negative opinion of the EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (EMA) , the Commission rejected,…
EU Judgment in Joined Cases C-6/21 P Germany v Pharma Mar and EU Commission; and C-16/21 P Estonia v Pharma Mar and EU Commission
Thursday 22 June 2023 Judgment in Joined Cases C-6/21 P Germany v Pharma Mar and Commission;...
Recovery fund: EU Council gives green light to Estonia’s amended national plan
Estonia’s plan is now the first national plan which includes a REPowerEU chapter. This will contribute to accelerating Estonia’s transition towards clean…
Large-scale food fraud and tax evasion: Crackdown on a Lithuanian criminal network
Supported by Eurojust and Europol, judicial and law enforcement authorities in Lithuania, Estonia, France and Germany have dismantled a Lithuanian…
IMF: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2023 Article IV Mission to Estonia
Washington, D.C., 23 May 2023 A Concluding Statement describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff...
NextGenerationEU: EU Commission endorses Estonia’s €953m modified recovery and resilience plan
Brussels, 12 May 2023 Today, the European Commission has given a positive assessment of Estonia’s...
President of Estonia visits NATO’s DIANA European Regional Office
Brussels, 5 May 2023 On Friday (5 May 2023), President Alar Karis of Estonia was...
Visit to NATO by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
Brussels, 4 May 2025 On Friday, 5 May 2023, the NATO Secretary General, Mr. Jens...
Eurojust: Strike against OCG that defrauded thousands of companies
The Hague, 26 April 2023 Judicial and law enforcement authorities in Germany, Estonia and Latvia...
Bilateral matters: Estonia’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs to visit Finland
Helsinki, 17 April 2023 Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto will meet Estonia’s Minister of...
Eurojust action to take down the Genesis Market
Online market selling stolen account credentials to criminals worldwide taken down in multi-country effort dubbed...
Core international crimes in Ukraine: 1st anniversary of the Joint Investigation Team
24 March 2023 One year ago tomorrow, on 25 March 2022, the national authorities of...