STOCKHOLM, 18-Aug-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Defence and security company Saab has signed a contract with the Estonian Armed Forces to deliver BT46 training systems to the Estonian Army. The deliveries will be made in 2018. The Estonian Armed Forces ordered the … Read the full press release
Posted in Defence, Estonia, Security & Safety, Sweden, Technology
Tagged BT46 training systems, Estonian Army, Saab
NIB and Estonia’s AS Tallinna Lennujaam have agreed on a loan of EUR 24 million for the expansion of the airside traffic area and the development of other investments at Tallinn Airport. HELSINKI, 19-Dec-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — The 13-year maturity loan will … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Construction, Estonia, Finland, Investment, Travel
Tagged AS Tallinna Lennujaam, Estonia, Gunnar Okk, NIB, Tallinn Airport, Tallinn Airport expansion
The loan and lease portfolio continued to increase relatively quickly in July, growing by 5% over the year The average interest rate on loans has risen slightly in recent months The volume of deposits was 7.3% larger in July than … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Economy, Estonia, Financial
Tagged Eesti Pank, Estonian companies, lease portfolio, loan, Mari Tamm
The fall in the price level was again mainly due to cheaper energy Services prices are rising, reflecting wage and inflation pressures in Estonia The price of industrial goods has not reacted to rises in incomes and demand The consumer … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Economy, Energy, Gas & Oil, Estonia
Tagged Consumer prices in Estonia, Eesti Pank, fall in the oil price
Saku Brewery has been participating in the Responsible Entrepreneurship Index competition for the 4th time, and this year for the first time it received a silver award to prove its quality level. Thus the company’s contribution to environmentally friendly production, … Read the full press release
The two-euro circulation coin dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Paul Keres will be issued on 7 January Coins will be available from the Eesti Pank museum and online shop from 12.00 noon on 8 January The … Read the full press release
Posted in Art & Culture, Banks, Estonia, Society
Tagged chess player, Eesti Pank, Paul Keres, two-euro commemorative coin
Rapid wage rises have encouraged people to participate in the labour market more actively: despite the decline in the working age population the labour force increased in the first half of the year. Annual growth in employment was fast in … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Economy, Estonia
Tagged Eesti Pank Economist, labour force, Orsolya Soosaar, working age population
At the end of its recently finished annual visit to Estonia to assess Estonian economic policy, the IMF projected the near-term potential output growth of the Estonian economy at 3% per year, which is slightly below the estimate of Eesti … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Economy, Estonia
Tagged Eesti Pank, Estonian economy, IMF
Tallinn, Estonia, 27-02-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Data from Statistics Estonia show that the average gross monthly wage increased by 5.3% over the year in the fourth quarter of 2014, and the gross hourly wage by 6%. This growth was faster than … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Economy, Estonia, Financial
Tagged Eesti Pank, gross monthly wage, Hanna Jürgenson, Orsolya Soosaar, Statistics Estonia
Tallinn, Estonia, 5-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The Eesti Pank executive board has decided to put the Maardu manor estate up for sale at a starting price of two million euros. The real estate company Colliers International Advisors OÜ has been chosen … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Estonia, Financial, Management, Real Estate
Tagged Ardo Hansson, Colliers International Advisors OÜ, Eesti Pank, Maardu manor estate
BRUSSELS, 27-1-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Union is increasing its humanitarian assistance in Ukraine where the latest surge of violence has deepened an already desperate situation. Thousands of people are suffering from the combined impact of the conflict, displacement, … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Society, Ukraine
Tagged Christos Stylianides, EU airlift, humanitarian assistance in Ukraine, Jean-Claude Juncker, recovery aid, The European Union, UNHCR, UNICEF, violence
Tallinn, Estonia, 13-1-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The exhibition ‘Lithuanian Money from the Litas to the Euro’ opens on 13 January in the Eesti Pank museum. It tells the story of the history of money in Lithuania and is being presented to … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Estonia, Financial, Lithuania
Tagged Eesti Pank, Eesti Pank museum, exhibition, Siiri Ries, the Litas to the Euro’, ‘Lithuanian Money
Brussels, Belgium, 09-1-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Estonia officially became EUROCONTROL’s 41st Member State on 1 January 2015. With the accession of Estonia, EUROCONTROL covers all 28 European Union states. This event reinforces EUROCONTROL’s status as being truly pan-European. Even before becoming … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Belgium, Estonia, European Union, Management
Tagged Estonia, EUROCONTROL, Frank Brenner, Mrs Urve Palo
At the end of October a new beer from Saku Brewery, in the series of Humulus and Barley, arrives to the stores – American ale-type red beer. Saku, Estonia, 23-10-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The Humulus and Barley Ale is brewed … Read the full press release
Posted in Estonia, Food & Beverage, Marketing
Tagged beer, Humulus and Barley beer, Saku Brewery
Tallinn, Estonia, 15-8-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Data from Statistics Estonia show that the number of employed fell by 1.2% year on year in the second quarter of 2014. A low rate of participation in the labour force meant that the unemployment rate … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Estonia, Financial, Society
Tagged Eesti Pank, Labour market statistics, Orsolya Soosaar
Zurich, 19-5-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The Swiss National Bank (SNB), the European Central Bank (ECB), the central banks of the euro area (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain) … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Banks, Belgium, Business, Cyprus, Estonia, European Union, Financial, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain
Tagged ECB, fourth gold agreement between central banks, SNB, Swedish Riksbank, the central banks of the euro area, The European Central Bank, The Swiss National Bank
Tallinn, Estonia, 27-1-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — A notable feature of the Estonian payment environment is the large share of electronic payments. In the fourth quarter of 2013, 99.6% of all payments between banks were initiated electronically. An average of only 1100 payments per … Read the full press release
Stockholm, Sweden, 04-12-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Sweden Technology Fast 50 is an objective ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Sweden as well as an annual award to those companies. Cloudmore is pleased to be recognized from such a credible … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Estonia, Finland, Internet & Online, Ireland, News, Norway, Sweden, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Awards, Bolagsverket, Cloud, cloud services provider, cloud services unified, Cloudmore, Deloitte, Erik Olin, Michael Wicander, ranking, revenue growth, Rising Stars, Sweden Technology Fast 50, Swedish Fast 50
Riga, Latvia, 27-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — For 4th time already CRN/RE (edition which is dedicated to IT business in Russia) has rated Russian IT distributors to name the best distributors for different customer categories – channels. The results of year 2013 rating … Read the full press release
Riga, Latvia, 27-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — ELKO Group, one of the leading IT product wholesalers in the Eastern Europe and one of the largest companies in Latvia, announced it has entered into a distribution agreement with Transcend, a leading global provider of … Read the full press release
Posted in Electronics & Machinery, Estonia, Latvia, Retail, Technology
Tagged Baltics, card readers, consumer electronics, digital music players, distribution agreement, ELKO Group, Flash cards, Guntis Tomsons, IT product wholesalers, Kevin Yen, memory modules, portable hard drives, Solid-State Drives, USB flash drives
The 2013 Eesti Pank doctoral studies research award of 2300 euros went to Anne Lauringson for her work on how unemployment benefits affected labour market outcomes in Estonia in the economic crisis. The master’s studies research award of 1300 euros … Read the full press release
On the 5-th of August Saku’s new representation will start in South Estonia. 15-8-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The Tähtvere representation has several times bigger area than the former Tartu Office – approximately 1500 square metres-, which will serve as an office … Read the full press release
25-7-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — The report published last week by the European Central Bank on card fraud showed that card payments have become more secure due to technological advances and that the share of card transactions that are fraudulent has fallen … Read the full press release
3-7-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Fortum has agreed to acquire district heat operations in the city of Tartu in Estonia from the Estonian district heat company Eraküte. The district heating network accounts for approximately 20% of the whole Tartu network and is the fastest … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Energy, Gas & Oil, Estonia, Financial, Finland, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment
Tagged acquired, acquisition, Eraküte, Estonia, Fortum, heat operations, Tartu
Brussels / Athens, 17-6-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — The winners of the 2013 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards will be honoured this evening at a ceremony in Athens in the presence of Karolos Papoulias, the President of Greece, Androulla Vassiliou, … Read the full press release
Posted in Art & Culture, Awards, Belgium, Estonia, European Union, Germany, Government, Greece, Non Profit, Portugal, Society, Spain, United Kingdom
Tagged Acropolis, Androulla Vassiliou, Athens, Brussels, Cultural Heritage, CULTURE, Elliniki Etairia, EU Prize for Cultural Heritage, Europa Nostra, Europa Nostra Awards, Herodes Atticus, Karolos Papoulias, Loures, Machines of Wielemans-Ceuppens Brewery, Odeion, Plácido Domingo, Roman Theatre of Medellin, SOS Azulejo Project, Strawberry Hill, Tallinn Seaplane Harbour, The Propylaea Central Building in Athens, Twickenham, Wielemans-Ceuppens Brewery
21-5-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — The Association of Estonian Food Industry announced Saku Brewery as the company that achieved the biggest growth in export turnover in 2012 among the members of the Association. Saku’s export turnover increased by nearly 50% last year, … Read the full press release
Aachen, 7-5-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Europe on Track, a Spanish youth media project, was awarded first prize at the 2013 Charlemagne Youth Prize ceremony on 7 May in Aachen University. The second prize went to the photo contest Discover Europe from Poland … Read the full press release
Posted in Art & Culture, Awards, Estonia, European Union, Germany, Media, Poland, Politics, Society, Spain
Tagged 2013 European Charlemagne Youth Prize, Aachen, Aachen University, Charlemagne Youth Prize, Discover Europe, ECYP2013, Europe on Track, European identity, Hans-Gert Pöttering, integration, Marcel Philip, Martin Schulz, prize, Spanish youth media, The Story of my Life, young people, Youth Prize
Brussels, 29-4-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Induction programmes designed to offer personalised support and advice for new teachers are now mandatory in 15 EU Member States (Austria, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK) … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Education, Estonia, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Government, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia (FYROM), Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Politics, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Society, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom
Tagged Androulla Vassiliou, Eurydice network, Induction programmes, initial teacher education, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, interpersonal skills, new teachers, pedagogical knowledge, PISA 2009, pre-primary education, primary education, Programme for International Student Assessment, Rethinking Education strategy, school, school leaders, SCHOOLS, secondary education, TALIS, TALIS 2008, teacher education, teachers, teaching, Teaching and Learning International Survey, teaching time, team working, TIMSS 2011, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
19-4-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — By letter received by EIB on 11 March 2013, the Republic of Austria nominated, by common accord with the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom … Read the full press release
Posted in Austria, Banks, Business, Estonia, European Union, Financial, Finland, Government, Latvia, Lithuania, Management, Sweden
Tagged Board of Directors, Board of Governors, Karin Rysavy, Lars Östling, proposed appointment
Brussels, 18-4-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — State aid: Commission extends inquiry into public support measures for Estonian Air The European Commission has extended the scope of an in-depth investigation opened in February 2013 into public support measures in favour of Estonian Air (see IP/13/133) … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, Belgium, Business, Estonia, European Union, Financial, Government, Investment, Law, Transportation & Logistics, Travel
Tagged Estonian Air, EU rules, EU state aid rules, investigation, MEIP, Public interventions, R&R guidelines, state aid, state aid investigation, TFEU