Many events during the restoration of independence era are worthy of remembrance and commemoration, but three have proved to be chief among them. They are closely tied with one another and it would be wrong to view them separately.
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The spirit and the power of spirit. Local government elections. Local government funding and regional politics. Prospect of Estonian energy. European Union enlargement. The Constitution and its 10th anniversary. Corruption in transitional society. Trustworthiness of state institutions. Legal semantics in legislation. Public opinion and the media on the work of the Riigikogu. Estonian housing policy. The Riigikogu and the European Convention.
Many events during the restoration of independence era are worthy of remembrance and commemoration, but three have proved to be chief among them. They are closely tied with one another and it would be wrong to view them separately.
"Power" and "spirit" (or "intellect") are popular metaphors in Estonia in discourse about society.
In the Soviet local council elections, people voted for pre-approved candidates in one-seat districts. The ratification of a declaration of restoration of independence in 1988 allowed a direction to be taken toward renewing local governments.
The present local government funding system is becoming obsolete. The great differences in income levels and the inexorable growth of the tax-free minimum make rapid and cardinal reform of the system necessary.
The aim of the article is to survey the changes over the last few decades in Estonia's regional economic development and future trends in the wider context of industrialised Western democracies. The article details the main factors that influenced Estonia's regional development and outlines the potential development of the first part of this century.
Despite the fact that a long-term state fuel and energy plan was approved by parliament six years ago, Estonia's energy sector still moves forward amid ambiguities and contradictions. The old plan has simply left too many questions unanswered. Today, Estonia needs a new and more comprehensive and concrete energy plan.
In talking about Estonian energy's potential for development, many people from different walks of life have made pronouncements in the media on what is right and what is wrong. But often the actual goal of these edifying words is lost, as is the picture of reality.
Since the creation of the EU, the central topic of European integration has been expanding and deepening it. Deepening embraces expanding spheres of cooperation as well as increasing cooperation and placing it in under joint state-wide (supranational) control.
The objective of the present article is to evaluate the economic aspects of the European Union future prospects in the context of eastward EU enlargement, based on the theoretical concept of integration.
The objective of the European Convention was to work out recommendations on the future shape of the EU.
The article discusses some of the problems that have arisen regarding the constitution.
Estonia's constitution will mark its 10-year anniversary in the summer of 2002.
The fact that Estonia's possible accession to the EU will be accompanied by changes in the foundations of our statehood is now widely accepted. Leaving the constitution unamended is not considered a possibility by either the pro-Europe camp or the Euroskeptics.
Corruption in the legal sense does not match the definition used by journalists and newspaper readers.
One of the purposes of the project, Limiting Corruption in a Transitional Society, was to identify which stage of state procurement posed the biggest danger of corruption and how to discourage it with legal measures.
The term conflict of interest is central to anti-corruption regulation, since many different codes of economic law are directed at preventing them.
A public survey done in autumn 2001 by the International and Social Studies Institute at the order of the Riigikogu Chancellery shows the reasons for low political trust in links to other societal problems.
Several years of experience working with linguists in the vocational master's degree program for Tartu University linguists inspired me to write in RiTo on the relationship between language and law, with the emphasis on language.
At the request of the Riigikogu Chancellery, Rull & Rumm analysed how the Riigikogu was received by the public in 2001 on the basis of online and print media. On the basis of the analyses, it can be said that the activities of the party factions received the most coverage.
Trust in the Riigikogu is tied to how informed people are of that institution. Ignorance breeds a feeling of vagueness and a desire to let things just go as they will. The article looks at how people's level of consciousness of the Riigikogu's work and duties has changed, where they get their information from or prefer to get it from, and whether they consider the coverage of the Riigikogu satisfactory.
The article analyses how Estonia's two largest dailies covered values used in implementing policy from 1997-2001.
Minorities in Estonia are a community of many nationalities. Integration and cultural policy vis-à-vis minorities have been on the agenda ever since restoration of independence.
Engineering is a way of life, a creative activity that features by a continuous quest, the need to think in terms of optimum values, bringing new ideas to fruition.
Central and Eastern European states have gone through dramatic times over the last decade. The reform of the economic environment from a centralised command economy to a free market-centred one has produced winners as well as losers.
House and home have considerable impact on people's health, well-being and level of opportunity. Estonia's transitional society has not addressed residential issues very much.
The main goal of regulation is to benefit the social weal and create a macroeconomic environment that would ensure competitiveness.
To help enshrine the principles of civil society in legislation, the Estonian Law Centre Foundation has launched a project, which lets ordinary citizens participate in the drafting of the most important.
Like our other social organisations, charity is still in an embryonic stage in Estonia.
At the 2000 summit in Nice, the EU's leaders laid the groundwork for the expansion of Europe with many necessary institutional changes. It was clear to all member states that it would be difficult to achieve unanimity and because of that expansion would be more difficult.
The idea of judicial constitutional review in Estonia has a long history of maturing and realisation. As an important issue of political life, it has enjoyed lively discussions and debates in the course of elaboration of independent Estonia's constitutions.
The article gives a short overview of law volumes on the constitution. Under examination are monographs and articles from law periodicals (primarily Juridica).
The article gives an overview of the legislative body as a special type of information consumer.