Ministers sign final prerequisite agreement for visa freedom with USA

Estonian Interior Minister Jüri Pihl and Justice Minister Rein Lang signed an agreement in Washington that serves as a prerequisite for visa-free travel between Estonia and the United States.
The intergovernmental agreement on the combating and prevention of serious crime was signed on behalf of the US government by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Assistant [...]

Harvesting continues

According to Statistics Estonia, by 15 September, a half of the sown area of cereals, a third of the area under potatoes and 16% of the sown area of rape and turnip rape had been harvested in Estonia.

Estimated high production did not realize due to unusually unfavourable climate conditions in harvesting period. The yield of [...]

Estonian tax ratio increased

According to the Statistics Estonia, in 2007 the Estonian overall tax ratio was 33.1% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The ratio of taxes and compulsory social security contributions to the GDP rose by 1.8 percentage points compared to 2006.

In 2007, the revenues from the taxes and social security contributions increased by 23% compared to [...]

Consolidated budget still in surplus

According to the adjusted data of Statistics Estonia, the Estonian general government sector surplus in 2007 was 2.7% and the consolidated gross debt level was 3.5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The general government gross debt level is the lowest within the decade.

In 2007, adjusted on the basis of the annual financial statements, the [...]

Half of the gross domestic product of Estonia is created in Tallinn

According to Statistics Estonia, the value added created in Harju county covered 61.1% of the Estonia’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2006. Concentration of active economic activity in Tallinn played the main role in it. The value added created in Tallinn accounted for 50.8% of Estonia’s GDP.
The share of Harju county’s value added has gradually [...]

Government approves 2009 state budget

At its session today the Estonian government approved the draft state budget for 2009. Based on the draft, total expenditure in 2009 will be 98.7 billion kroons, representing growth of 8.4 billion kroons on the 2008 annual and supplementary budgets. The rise in expenditure is primarily the result of increased use of EU support and [...]

Half of the gross domestic product of Estonia is created in Tallinn

The share of Harju county’s value added has gradually increased in the GDP of Estonia, for example ten years ago, i.e. in 1996, the share of Harju county comprised 53% of Estonia’s GDP. In 2006, Harju county was followed, at a great distance, by Tartu county and Ida-Viru county whose shares in the GDP of [...]

A. Le Coq beverage group doubled profits in 2007

A. Le Coq Group, the owner of beverage holdings in the all three Baltic states, earned a net profit of roughly 250 million kroons (EUR 16 mln) in 2007, almost double the figure for 2006.
A. Le Coq Group owned the Tartu Õlletehas beverage house in Estonia, Cesu Alus in Latvia, and Ragutis in Lithuania during [...]

Enterprise Estonia to get increased EU support for 2009 budget

The budget of Enterprise Estonia next year will be 1.095 billion kroons (EUR 70 mln), according to the state budget bill endorsed by the government.
The share of EU funds in the budget will be 910 million kroons and that of the Estonian state 107 million kroons.
Year on year, the share of EU support is set [...]

The share of tourists arriving in Estonia is 0,4% in the tourism of Europe

According to Statistics Estonia, 1.9 million foreign tourists stayed overnight in Estonia last year, this comprises 0.4% of tourists travelling in the European countries.
According to Statistics Estonia, 1.9 million foreign tourists stayed overnight in Estonia last year, this comprises 0.4% of tourists travelling in the European countries.

According to the data of the UN World Tourism [...]