Important fields where innovation yields a competitive edge and helps ensure subsistence are energy, food production and information technology. Estonia needs to focus its activities, Züleyxa Izmailova writes.
The Riigikogu discussed the green turn as a matter of national importance a day after it passed the state budget. It is a telling example of how things have been handled in this country for the past 10-15 years – first, we divide the money among ourselves and then we tell the people a short green fairy tale. A petition (link in Estonian - ed.) against a new shale oil mill was binned by the Riigikogu Economic Affairs Committee a day before the budget was passed.