Times are changing and our industry is facing many challenges. Ahti Asmann, the Chairman of the Board of the Estonian Chemical Industry Association, writes about them in his essay.
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In focus: Estonian industry
Without industry, it is difficult to build a prosperous society. How can we maintain our traditional industry in Estonia and further develop it according to new needs?
Times are changing and our industry is facing many challenges. Ahti Asmann, the Chairman of the Board of the Estonian Chemical Industry Association, writes about them in his essay.
The Estonian green transition policy needs economic realism to ensure the viability and competitiveness of industry. More than 1000 organisations, including the Estonian Chemical Industry Association, have joined an appeal to EU leaders to support a European Industrial Deal that has ambitions equal with the European Green Deal, highlighting the challenges relating to high energy prices and raw material supply.
The Estonian industry is going through hard times because it is necessary to deal with the consequences of major crises: all inputs to production, from raw materials to wages, have become more expensive.
The data of platform Station of the Baltic Mediamonitoring Group (BMMG) show that industry is addressed around 20,000 times a year. If we look at the content of coverage, we can see that there is a lot of talk about the local food industry. And in the coverage of industry, politicians, leaders of representative associations and bank economists were mentioned the most.
In 2023, goods were exported from Estonia for EUR 18.2 billion at current prices, and imported for EUR 21.2 billion. In comparison to 2022, exports decreased by 16% and imports by 17%. The trade deficit amounted to EUR 3 billion.
Keiu Telve writes about the study commissioned by the Estonian Employers’ Confederation which mapped the attitudes of managers and owners of Estonian industries regarding innovation and business development.
The global security situation has become unpredictable, and the turnover and exports of the defence and space industry companies are growing.
Estonian industries and the country as a whole face limitations in their development due to a lack of ambition. The hunger for progress that once drove us has now been replaced by frugality, and the pursuit of achievement has given way to contentment. However, without economic growth, we cannot address the increasing needs and aspirations of our society.
A sanction or a restrictive measure is one of the many foreign policy instruments a state or an association of states uses to achieve a certain political change or to express a certain view.
The modern state, which can be seen as a symbiosis of the physical and digital spheres, is functioning with the help of digital technologies, or a digitally empowered state.
The Master’s thesis ‘The Awareness and Preparedness of the People of Estonia in Coping with Long Term Crises Relating to Internal Security’ examines the preparedness and the level of knowledge of the Estonian population in regard to various crises connected with internal security.
As recently as a decade ago, receiving investments and technologies from the People’s Republic of China was not seen as something bad in Estonia.
Ensuring the protection of the lives and property of its people and a general sense of security is one of the most important tasks of all countries.
In the multicrisis of recent years, Estonia has done relatively well, but the country and society that have gotten used to the success story they have enjoyed so far are not satisfied. What is different in this crisis?
The word “elections” has a potential to become the most used word throughout this year because millions people are about to vote in 2024.
Estonia’s own electricity production continues to decrease, covering less than 60% of consumption.
What does Statistics Estonia know about men’s and women’s salaries and how is the notorious gender pay gap calculated?
According to Statistics Estonia, 6.2% of the population, or nearly 84,000 people in Estonia, feel deprived. Deprivation is one of the facets of poverty, which is based on the assessment of a person themselves. According to the social study of 2023, every sixth person living in relative poverty felt deprivation.