| Siim Kallas | Presentation in the Riigikogu at the 1st Reading of the Draft State Budget Act 2000 |
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| Kalle Jürgenson | State Budget 2000, What and Why? |
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| Olev Raju | Commentaries on the State Budget 2000 |
| Madis Võõras | Estonia on the Way to Full Membership of the European Space Agency |
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| Ene Ergma | Estonia Has Become a Space State |
| Urve Läänemets | A Good Teacher Should Be Ready to Learn Also from the Pupils |
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| Külli Eichenbaum | Using the Local Peculiarities of Old Võromaa |
In focus: State reform
The little Republic of Estonia must regularly carry out reforms to improve its functioning. This does not mean efficiency alone, it also means innovating and doing some things completely differently than so far.
There are few countries in the world that are smaller than Estonia. The Estonian state cannot be built on the model of France, Germany or the United States of America. So maybe we should look for our own way when shaping our statehood. This means effectiveness, but not only that. This means innovativeness and doing some things completely differently from how they have been done so far.
For quite a while now, debates of varying intensity have been held in Estonia about the state reform. How to make our state more efficient so that it would better meet the needs of its inhabitants without governance becoming too thin?
The Constitution has served Estonia well, there has been no constitutional crisis. However, a parliamentary crisis is obvious in 2023.
The article examines the historical experience of Estonian statehood and the role of local government in today’s world of crises, as well as future directions.
The analysis of the state reform by the Ministry of Finance in 2023 provides a good opportunity to reflect on its progress, developments, challenges, and future possibilities.
Like all areas of policy, governance as a whole needs development.
A sensible balance of powers (cooperation and coordinated powers) between the Government (Prime Minister) and the institution of the President of the Republic developed as the Constitution of 1992 entered into force but after the term of office of Lennart Meri it has gone out of hands.
This article gives an overview of the advantages and challenges of experimental policy making.
The concept of a smart city is open to many interpretations and has changed over time.
The article gives an overview of the impact of the intellectual history of Western republicanism on the shaping of the 1920 Constitution of the Republic of Estonia and political order in the Constituent Assembly.
The military are increasingly contributing to the management of major crises. International experience shows that the army performs humanitarian tasks very well during crises in conflict areas both abroad and domestically.
Researchers have paid particular attention to the study of young people’s values, as a person’s value system is formed through socialisation into their everyday living environment and wider society.
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The peat that is extracted in Estonia is currently mainly used in the horticultural sector (~96% of the production is horticultural peat with different degrees of processing), and more than 90% of it is exported.
Democratic governance and a free society also entail rights and duties, including the duty to be responsible for the consequences resulting from one’s actions. How does invisible influencing activity affect people’s decisions in a democracy and at public events?
In this article, the meaning of recidivism is that a person who has committed an offence before commits a new offence within two years and is convicted for this.
The full-scale war in Ukraine has shifted many perceptions and concepts of defence planning. NATO countries, including Estonia, focused their efforts on building up relatively small, well-equipped mission armies, but the war in Ukraine is forcing European countries to redefine the meaning of military preparedness and the resources needed fo
Electricity exchange price of 97.94 EUR/MWh in Estonia during the third quarter of 2023 was 2.5 times higher than the 2020 price of 39.18 EUR/MWh. Finland’s electricity price of 46.76 EUR/MWh was two times lower than in Estonia, having fallen to the 2019 level of 47.66 EUR/MWh. Electricity generated to Estonia’s grid covered only 60% of consumption, even though domestic production is subsidised annually by 100 million euro from the renewable energy charge.