Quote of the week

  • 2003-09-18
"One Bundestag MP wrote us an extremely rude letter, threatening thatEstonia would not be accepted into the European Union if it does not pay up.We filed all such letters in a dustbin."MP Rein Lang, former deputy mayor of Tallinn, on pressure applied bypoliticians in Berlin to make Estonia pay the German company Polytan 6.5million kroons (415,000 euros) for the repair of Kadriorg Stadium. Lang saidthat the company simply did not fulfill its part of the contract.
 
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