Money is looking for a refuge. Government bonds that until now were reliable are not trusted any longer; the bonds of some European states have been declared trash by rating agencies.
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 |
The art of government. European dept crisis. Asylum policy. Labour market. Innovation.
Public broadcasting. Counterfeit medications. Baltic Assembly. Charity.
Summaries of articles are in English.
Full articles in Estonian
Money is looking for a refuge. Government bonds that until now were reliable are not trusted any longer; the bonds of some European states have been declared trash by rating agencies.
In Riigikogu Toimetised conversation circle on 21 November, three experts discussed the European debt crisis, and the future of the European Union and the common European currency. The experts participating in the conversation circle were the Minister of Finance Jürgen Ligi (Estonian Reform Party), Member of the Board of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute Erkki Bahovski and lawyer Andres Tupits. RiTo Editor-in-Chief Helle Ruusing acted as the moderator and compiled a summary of the discussion.
In the second part of Cervantes’s famous novel about the adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, the latter is appointed governor of the island Barataria.
*The essay is published in Estonian with the permission of the author. Translated from German by Krista Räni.
*Quotes from the book: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Teravmeelne hidalgo don Quijote La Manchast (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, I–II, 1987–1988, translator Aita Kurfeldt.
The article analyses different aspects of the Estonian asylum policy, first of all focusing on the conditions of receiving the asylum seekers.
Estonia has received refugees and implemented asylum policy only since 1997, when the first Refugees Act entered into force.
The article is based on the court practice analysis entitled “High court fee as an impediment to access to justice”, conducted by the Legal Information Department of the Supreme Court.
*The article is based on the analysis conducted in the Riigikogu in May 2011. Read more at: Vutt, M., Lillsaar, M., Rohtmets, E. Kõrge riigilõiv kui õigusemõistmisele juurdepääsu takistus. Kohtupraktika analüüs (High State Fees as an Obstacle to the Access to Justice. Analysis of Case Law). Tartu, 9 May 2011 – http://www.riigikohus.ee/vfs/1121/RiigiLoivud.pdf.
Innovation policy is essential for ensuring a country’s development and continuous enhancement of innovation performance.
*Peer-reviewed article. The research was supported from the funds of the European Social Fund through the Research and Innovation Policy Monitoring Programme.
The article focuses on the labour demand in the Estonian energy sector in a 10-year perspective.
*Peer-reviewed research paper.
On 21 June 2011, the general assembly of the Supreme Court of Estonia in Case No. 3-4-1-16-10 declared the institution of post-sentence detention, established for dealing with dangerous repeat offenders, to be unconstitutional. The purpose of the article is to draft possible answers to the question “How will the problem of habitual criminals that are dangerous to the society be dealt with in the future?”
This article discusses the fundamental principles of the Estonian Constitution from the viewpoint of the jurisprudence and legal literature of the Supreme Court of Estonia.
* The paper is based on the introductory article of the author’s book “Põhiõigused, demokraatia, õigusriik” (”Fundamental Rights, Democracy, Rule of Law”, 2011) and reflects the personal views of the author
The article is based on the master’s thesis on the Council of Europe Convention on Counterfeiting of Medical Products and Similar Crimes involving Threats to Public Health and related legal aspects.
The European Parliament Resolution adopted in November 2010 emphasises that in order to provide modern technologies and services to the wider public, the Member States must allocate appropriate funding to public service media.
*The article is based on the author’s doctoral thesis “EU media policy and survival of public service broadcasting in Estonia 1994–2010”, which was defended at the University of Tartu. – http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/bitstream/handle/10062/17927/joesaar_andres.pdf?sequence=1
Twice, in 2006 and in 2009, the Estonian education system has been assessed according to the comparative evaluation of the school pupils’ scholastic performance PISA (Program for International Student Assessment), coordinated by the Organisation of Economic Coopera-tion and Development (OECD).
In Estonia people have many possibilities to take part in the political processes but they must have thorough knowledge and much free time for that.
The article gives an overview of two recent studies on philanthropy in Estonia, one about volunteering and the other about charitable giving.
The parliamentary cooperation of the three Baltic States Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the foundations of which were laid by the establishing of the Baltic Assembly in 1991 in Tallinn, has in two decades undergone several changes.
It may be said that the book “Mitme tule vahel” ((“Between Many Fires”), Tartu, 2011), compiled by Lehte Hainsalu and Rein Järlik, is an undertaking that deserves extreme grati-tude and has a permanent value that cannot yet be fully understood.
The XI Riigikogu finished its work in spring 2011. Since the VII Riigikogu, the Chancellery of the Riigikogu in cooperation with the National Library of Estonia has recorded the most important activities of our parliament in a statistics collection.