The Social Democratic Party (SDE) parliamentary group decided on Wednesday to withdraw their signatures from the controversial Center Party-led family benefits bill.
Estonia does not support mandatory quotas for refugees, but it did expect greater support from the EU in compensating the costs incurred in connection with war refugees from Ukraine, MP Toomas Kivimägi (Reform), chairperson of the Constitutional Committee of the Riigikogu, said in Paris on Monday.
The Riigikogu's constitutional affairs committee is due to discus amendments to the main act relating to immigration in Estonia, after President Alar Karis declined to give assent to the bill making the amendments, on a technicality.
Amendments to Estonia's main immigration law which had been on the table for over a year-and-a-half and across two administrations, and whose provisions required altering to take into account the arrival of Ukrainian war refugees in Estonia, passed its final Riigikogu reading on Monday, with 61 votes in favor and 30 against.