TALLINN - Representative organizations of farmers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have sent a public missive to the heads of the European Union's institutions calling for fair distribution of direct support allocated in the union's framework of common agricultural policy. A demonstration seeking fair competitive conditions on the European common market is also to take place in Brussels on Thursday.   "The initial historical re...

TALLINN – The European Union is about to finalize the establishment of the digital single market as most of the regulations necessary for it have been adopted, Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas said. "I believe that we have reached a point with the development where from 2019, at least in Europe, we should not have to speak separately about the single market and the digital single market. Those are synonyms," Ratas said when giving an overview of the govern...

TALLINN - The UK is planning to hold an amphibious landing exercise on the coast of Estonia next summer, combining for the first time the actions of the Navy, the Air Force ad the Army in this region, the news portal of public broadcaster ERR reported Friday evening.  The UK, lead nation of the NATO multinational battalion battle group in Estonia, is also planning to rehearse cooperation between  different services of the armed forces more broadly and increas...

TALLINN - At the 25th meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE Ministerial Council) on Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized Ukraine and several Western countries, as well as Estonia and Latvia in various spheres. "In the EU countries Latvia and Estonia, the shameful phenomenon of statelessness remains," Lavrov said according to remarks published in Russian on the ...