Fermi Energia's investment decision is contingent on the state guaranteeing a price difference compensation mechanism for the nuclear plant, similar to the one used for wind farms.

At the Estonian Olympic Committee's regular general assembly, former Estonian Athletics Association president Erich Teigamägi was elected the organization's president for the next two years.

The most popular choice for Estonia's next prime minister is Urmas Reinsalu, the latest poll by NGO Ühiskonnauuringute Instituut and the research firm Norstat has found.

The Riigikogu on Wednesday passed amendments to the law that will require police to warn drivers about mobile speed cameras in the future.

Fermi Energia's investment decision is contingent on the state guaranteeing a price difference compensation mechanism for the nuclear plant, similar to the one used for wind farms.

Attorney-at-law Kristjan Tuul has asked the Ministry of the Interior to initiate an oversight procedure into the Estonian Internal Security Service (ISS) over its alleged practice of obtaining the contents of email inboxes without a legal basis or court authorization.

Donald Trump kolis Chongqingi? Oleme ausad, Hiina võiks olla viimane koht, kus Donald Trumpi jäljendajat kohata, aga tuleb välja, et ta on selle linna üks kuulsamaid sisuloojaid. Vähemalt lääne vaataja jaoks.

2022. aasta 24. veebruaril alustas Venemaa režiimi juht Vladimir Putin sissetungi Ukrainasse. Pärast seda, kui Ukraina lõi tagasi pealetungi Kiievile, on lahingute kese kandunud Ida- ja Lõuna-Ukrainasse. Postimees kajastab 1577. sõjapäeva sündmusi allolevas blogis.2026/ukraina-kalender 

A refinery and a shopping centre burned after almost 200 Ukrainian drones struck an area to the south-east of the Russian capital.

The US defence secretary's move follows a US decision to scale back its commitments to a high readiness force within the alliance.

Analysis showed how much the UK could have grown if it had not exited the EU.

Some insist on splitting the bill, others say the asker should pay, while many still see a man paying as romantic.

LONDON — Andy Burnham has decisively won the Makerfield by-election — making him eligible to challenge Keir Starmer for the leadership of Britain’s ruling Labour Party. He won with 24,927 votes, with his closest rival, Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon, behind on 15,696 votes. Turnout was 58.75 percent, up sharply from the 52.5 percent at the 2024 general election, and bucking the trend for by-elections. Burnham can now return to Westminster as an MP after nine years away serving as the mayor of Greater Manchester. A fresh by-election will be triggered in Greater Manchester to replace him as mayor because MPs are disqualified from serving as elected regional mayors. This developing story is being updated.

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. The name for a group of owls is a parliament. Presumably because, like politicians, they have deep-set eyes, toes that point in different directions and swallow their prey whole. Alas, there is no collective noun for politicians (A scandal of politicians? A promise of politicians? A drone of politicians?). But if anyone decided to release some owls into a legislative chamber, it would be a parliament in a parliament, making headline writers the world over very happy. Which brings us neatly (sort of) onto Miroslav Radačovský, who was named Slovakia’s ambassador to Cyprus this week. When he was an MEP in 2024, Radačovský released a live dove from a bag in the European Parliament in Strasbourg (which means the bird has a better attendance record than most EU lawmakers). “I would like to set this dove free as a symbol of peace, to symbolize that Europe needs peace. Let’s let this dove unite all of us,” he said, uniting the bloc by letting a terrified bird shit all over the hemicycle. Radačovský had clearly learned nothing from the pope. In 2014, Pope Francis and some children had similarly released two white doves from the Apostolic Palace during the pontiff’s weekly Angelus prayer. The doves were immediately attacked by a seagull and a crow. This, historians will one day surely document, was the exact moment that the world headed straight down the toilet. If we are assigning political leanings to birds though (and we are), then it’s obvious the seagull would be far right, specifically English far right — shaven-headed, violent, loves to hang out near the coast, and a bully who steals your chips (or fries, if you will). The pigeon would be green (politically), as they are almost exclusively found in urban areas, and considered a pest by many. Starlings would be socialist because they work together for the greater good with their elaborate swarming behavior, but are also prone to infighting (often to the death). Flamingos would be monarchists, looking down their noses at you, while woodpeckers would be anarchists, setting up base in the woods and indulging in extreme behavior by slamming their heads into trees. Hummingbirds would be liberal — tolerant and free-spirited but also aggressively territorial — and penguins would be conservatives, wearing their perpetual suits and trying to mate for life. Of course, no political affiliation can be attributed to the mallard duck, the only bird documented to have been engaging in homosexual necrophilia. CAPTION COMPETITION “This place is beautiful, Emmanuel. Have you considered holding a cage fight here?” Can you do better? Email us at pdallison@politico.eu or get in touch on X @POLITICOEurope. Last time, we gave you this photo: Thanks for all the entries. Here’s the best one from our mailbag — there’s no prize except the gift of laughter, which I think we can all agree is far preferable to cash or booze. “Darth Vader decides it’s time to start serving health food in the Death Star canteen.” by Tom Morgan

Greater Manchester mayor's victory in Makerfield clears way for a bid to unseat Starmer as prime minister.

BC Place was a battlefield as Kone was stretchered off, Qatar got two red cards, and both teams brawled after full-time.

US defence secretary addresses allies in latest attempt to get Europe to raise military budgetsPete Hegseth has announced a review of the US military presence across Europe, in a combative address to Nato allies where he threatened to cut force numbers in countries spending the least on defence.The US defence secretary, speaking at a meeting of Nato defence ministers in Brussels, accused some countries of “free riding” and others of being shameful for not allowing their airbases to be used by US jets bombing Iran in the spring. Continue reading...

Former negotiator believes in an unstable world, it is ‘perfectly possible’ the UK can rejoin the EU with old opt-outsUK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier saysA couple of years ago, Michel Barnier spent a weekend with Boris Johnson’s father, Stanley. It was not some ghoulish Brexit spin-off of The Traitors, but the result of the former EU negotiator’s wife, Isabelle, being a close friend of Johnson’s French cousin, Anne du Boucheron, the owner of Château de la Baronnière, a 19th-century estate in Mauges-sur-Loire, in western France.“We spent a weekend together in a French castle. Very friendly. Long promenades in the forest,” Barnier recalls of Johnson senior, with whom he discussed the former prime minister’s motivation to back Brexit. “It was interesting. Boris was much more European at the beginning. Even if he was critical. I don’t see it as a motivation but it is, perhaps, a method or attitude: to be pragmatic in some way. Cynical. Cynical to get power.” Continue reading...

Edi Rama defends controversial $4bn project that has triggered weeks of angry demonstrations

Draft report by European Commission aims to boost performance of lenders in bloc compared to US rivals