Estonia's Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) will send a rotating policing unit to the Latvia–Belarus border after an uptick in migration pressure.

Estonia wants to attract more international online casinos. Tax revenue is welcome, but if the market grows much faster than oversight, the risk is that society and players will end up paying the bill, writes Kilvar Kessler.

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.

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.

While the total number of injuries fell by 7 percent compared with the previous year, cases of intentional self-harm are on the rise, particularly among young people.

Soome kolmapäevasele otsusele lubada edaspidi oma pinnale tuumarelva järgnes neljapäeval esimene NATO tuumagrupi avalik teadaanne 27 aasta jooksul. Alliansi kaitseministrite kohtumise käigus ka tuumagrupi kohtumisel osalenud Hanno Pevkuri sõnul oli see järjestus siiski juhuslik.

Riigikohus kinnitas maksu- ja tolliameti (MTA) senist seisukohta, et e-sigareti vedelike maitsestajad on sisuliselt vedeliku osa ning neid ei tohi müüa ka eraldi. Sama kehtib ka veebipoodidele.

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

Forwarder, a Russian-flagged ship which left port in Primorsk last week, entered the Channel on Wednesday evening.

The Bank last cut interest rates in December but upheaval in the Middle East has stalled any further reductions.

Latest figures suggest companies are becoming more cautious about taking on new staff.

BRUSSELS — The European Commission is using artificial intelligence to speed up its work with prospective members of the EU. Two officials from the Commission who work on enlargement told POLITICO their department has been using an AI tool to assess candidate countries’ laws to ensure they align with EU legislation, as staff struggle to cope with an increased workload caused by so many countries banging on the bloc’s door. The AI tool used is the Commission’s own creation, the officials said. The EU executive launched GPT@EC, a generative AI tool for its staff, in 2024 amid privacy and security fears about American services such as ChatGPT and Claude. Several countries are racing towards EU membership, putting strain on staff at the Directorate-General for Enlargement and the Eastern Neighbourhood (DG ENEST), the department that manages candidates’ bids, both of the officials said. They were granted anonymity to speak freely. Ukraine and Moldova entered the first phase of membership on Monday, a major milestone on their path to joining the bloc, while Montenegro this week closed two more accession chapters, taking its total to 16 out of 33. Albania is also making progress on its membership application, while those of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Georgia have advanced slowly or have completely stalled. Iceland will hold a referendum in August to decide whether to relaunch its bid to join the EU, with geopolitics injecting a new urgency into countries’ bids to join the bloc since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland. “In the last 16, 17 months, we have delivered more than in the 15 years before,” Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos said. But candidate countries are skeptical that AI is the answer to the Commission’s workload. Two officials from different candidate countries told POLITICO that the tool should just be used for translation and simple tasks, not for more complex matters. One of the officials acknowledged the Commission’s workload has dramatically increased in recent years, putting pressure on staff, but urged caution with relying on AI, arguing it could lead to mistakes. Other departments at the Commission use the AI tool. All three of the EU’s main institutions have banned staff from using artificially generated videos and images in official communications.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Thursday announced authorities had detained a suspect in the murder of Russian exile and artist Robert ⁠Kuzovkov, who worked under the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky. Skrepetsky was a well-known critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who was known for his satirical cartoons and a YouTube channel with around 28,000 subscribers. He was shot dead on Monday in broad daylight in Biała Podlaska, a city in eastern Poland about 30 kilometers from the Belarusian border. According to Tusk and police in the Lublin region, a 36-year-old man with a Georgian passport was arrested under suspicion of being Kuzovkov’s murderer. Tusk on Wednesday said “everything indicates that this was a political assassination,” but he added that Polish authorities were still compiling “evidence and more concrete findings.” “If it turns out that Russia was behind this attack, it would constitute an act of state terrorism,” he added. On Thursday, Tusk appeared to double down on his belief that the murder had been commissioned. “Authorities are working to identify the person who ordered the crime,” he wrote on X.

After an initial US-Iran agreement is reached, Iranians still await relief at the grocery checkout.

The Filton 4 case reveals a democracy more frightened of protesters than of the destruction they protest against.

Ukraine’s president ramps up rhetoric after overnight drone strikes on Russian capitalHegseth makes it clear that the review will not be just a box-ticking exercise.“It’s a review that some countries will fail and others will pass with flying colours. In the end, the review is intended to both improve US force posture and basing and strengthen Nato 3.0.”“It will be designed to ensure that Nato is moving fast and irreversibly toward Europe leading, stepping up to take primary responsibility for the defence of Europe.”“Where other allies do not spend with urgency, our dues, contributions will go down. Nato will be a two-way street.” Continue reading...

Kyiv says attack, which also forced evacuation at Russia’s biggest airport, was in response to strike on historic monastery Europe live – latest updatesUkrainian drones have hit several locations across Moscow in Kyiv’s biggest air raid on the city since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, setting a major ⁠oil refinery on fire and forcing evacuations at the country’s largest airport.The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, described the attack as a response to Russia’s striking of a historic Kyiv monastery complex earlier this week. Continue reading...

Comments from Public Investment Fund governor come amid concerns about EU’s foreign subsidies regulation

Defence secretary announced decision as he scolded Nato allies for failing to support Washington in Iran war