An interactive work by acclaimed French visual artist Maxime Touroute will light up Tallinn's Patarei Sea Fortress walls as a shared canvas Friday night.

Presidential candidate Ülle Madise said on ETV's "Esimene stuudio" talk show that she is a conscientious and resolute leader in times of crisis who, like a ship's captain, would not abandon ship when difficulties arise.

Presidential candidate Ülle Madise said on ETV's "Esimene stuudio" talk show that she is a conscientious and resolute leader in times of crisis who, like a ship's captain, would not abandon ship when difficulties arise.

Center Party leader Mihhail Kõlvart cannot bar Riigikogu members from his party voting in next week's presidential election, one expert said.

An interactive work by acclaimed French visual artist Maxime Touroute will light up Tallinn's Patarei Sea Fortress walls as a shared canvas Friday night.

A new online resource offers families practical guidance on navigating education in Estonia, from schools and learning Estonian to homework and supporting kids through change.

Thbilisis lammutatakse maha «Rike torud» – üks silmapaistvamaid hooneid, mis sel sajandil Gruusia pealinna kerkinud, kuid paraku tühjana seisnud.

41-aastane Tanel Leok on motokrossimaailmas ainulaadne mees, sest tema nimele kuulub rahvuste krossi osalemisrekord. Tänavu võtab isalt teatepulga üle 18-aastane Sebastian Leok, kes teeb Eesti koondise särgis debüüdi.

Remembering its role in the World Wars is a key aspect of modern Germany's identity but the AfD argues it is time to take a more positive view of the past.

On Saturday, Iceland will vote on EU membership talks, amid economic and geopolitical tensions.

Perhaps our days of doomscrolling are numbered, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.

The UK government claimes panels could help homes "significantly cut" energy bills.

BRUSSELS — The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Sweden today called on Brussels to return to the controversial topic of leveraging Russia’s frozen state assets to plug the gaping hole in Ukraine’s war-ravaged budget. The four countries issued the rallying call in a letter, seen by POLITICO, to the European Commission’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, and Irish Foreign Minister Helen McEntee, ahead of next week’s informal gathering of fellow foreign ministers in Wicklow, Ireland. The letter, dated August 27, throws weight behind earlier calls to return to the Russian asset debate amid concerns that Kyiv will soon run out of money again. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday revealed that he’s already facing a €23 billion defense funding hole. “Ukraine needs more financial support in both the short and long term,” said the letter, which copied in the Commission’s economy and enlargement bosses, Valdis Dombrovskis and Marta Kos. “We believe now is the time to revert to the issue of how we can make further use of Russia’s immobilised assets for the benefit of Ukraine.” EU leaders in December failed to agree on a plan that would leverage €210 billion of frozen Russian state assets, most of which reside in the Brussels-based depository Euroclear, to underpin a massive loan to Kyiv. Belgium resisted the plan and demanded unlimited guarantees from the rest of the EU to protect itself against a legal and financial backlash from Moscow, a request that EU leaders deemed too steep. EU leaders instead decided to raise common debt from financial markets to fund a €90 billion loan to Ukraine. The EU will disburse the loan over the next 18 months, subject to reforms that the Ukrainian government must carry out. Zelenskyy wants the EU to frontload the money now, although it’ll be difficult to convince all EU capitals to advance the funds without Kyiv implementing the reforms first. The Belgian government has in recent weeks said it’s open to returning to the Russian assets debate but reaffirmed its demands on the rest of the bloc to provide financial safeguards against Russian retaliation — a key issue that has not gone unnoticed in The Hague, Madrid, Stockholm, and Warsaw. “We are well aware that this question is complex, and that we must look for solutions that take legitimate interests into account,” said the letter, calling on the Commission’s experts to explore “new options” that  “ensure that the risk rests with all EU Member States and where no Member State holds a disproportionate burden.”

Polish Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski asked the European Commission to fine Meta €250 million, alleging it is failing to tackle scams and fake ads on its platforms. Gawkowski also asked for an investigation into Facebook and Instagram’s parent company in a letter to EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen dated Aug. 26 and seen by POLITICO. Gawkowski serves as Poland’s digital affairs minister. The Commission, which oversees large platforms like Meta under the Digital Services Act, has yet to open any investigations into how they tackle financial scams, nor has it imposed any fines on social media companies for lapses in how they protect users more broadly. Meta’s reported removals of scams and fraud on its platforms in the EU “show that scams are not a marginal phenomenon occurring outside the platform’s main operating model,” but rather one of “the largest and most persistent forms of abuse within the Meta ecosystem,” the deputy PM wrote. Polish authorities and cybersecurity teams have notified Meta multiple times, but the company still doesn’t ensure “an effective and adequate response to scam advertisements,” Gawkowski wrote. A cybersecurity team within Poland’s National Research Institute reported 122 advertisements to Meta as fraudulent and only 13 percent were removed, he said. The deputy PM also cited a complaint from the consumer organization BEUC, which found that across 13 countries, only 27 percent of fraudulent ads were removed from Google, Meta and TikTok. The Commission and Meta didn’t respond to POLITICO’s request for comment. The Commission sent a request for information to four platforms in September 2025 about how they tackle scams: Apple, Booking.com, Google and Microsoft. Gawkowski is asking for an investigation into breaches of six articles of the DSA, including risk assessment and mitigation, advertiser transparency and mechanisms for reporting illegal content. He is also asking Meta to take a series of mitigation measures on top of the fine.

Italian Football Federation says its decision is based on Infantino's recent initiatives on international competitions.

More than 165 people are killed in floods triggered by a huge glacial collapse near Nepal-China border.

Allegations Nathan Cofnas was unqualified for Ghent role and would cause ‘negative impact’ made to senior leaders months agoNathan Cofnas, the academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism, has been accused of having “very limited expertise” for his academic role by professors also working at Ghent University, who say he has a “far-right agenda”.Cofnas secured a postdoctoral research role “on the future of liberalism” at Belgium’s Ghent University in March. Weeks later, Ghent’s department of philosophy and moral sciences handed a 19-page statement to university officials, setting out why it believed it was “improbable” that Cofnas was the best candidate. Continue reading...

Comté, beaufort and abondance makers can temporarily supplement cows’ diets as there is ‘no grass left to eat’Strict production rules will be loosened for some of France’s most famous cheeses after drought and repeated heatwaves dried out grazing pastures, threatening the livelihoods of traditional dairy workers.Comté, a hard cheese made from raw cows’ milk in the Jura mountains, is France’s top-selling traditional cheese, with more than 62,000 tonnes produced last year. The government announced on Wednesday that its producers would be granted a temporary change to strict rules on grazing after farmers said extreme heat had scorched their pastures, putting production at risk. Continue reading...

Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain back plan to solve Kyiv’s latest funding crisis

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