A senior official with the Estonian interior ministry said on Wednesday that the country does not rule out the possibility that some Afghans who have worked for Tallinn will have to stay in Afghanistan.Last week, the Estonian government agreed to host up to 30 Afghan nationals, who had worked with t ..
AS Merko Ehitus and GRK Infra AS entered into a contract with the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) on Tuesday to design and construct the infrastructure of sections 4-6 of Estonia s southeast land border.
The contract value is approximately €15.8 million, plus value added tax. The works are scheduled to be completed in April 2025, Merko announced.
The contract concerns design and construction works for a 34.7-kilometer border segment in Võru County. The border segment will be built from Tserebi village on the southern shore of Lake Vanigojärv up to the village of Võmmorski.
Six eligible tenderers participated in the tender for the second phase of the works on the southeast border, with offers that were fairly close. On the basis of the price criterion, a joint offer by AS Merko Ehitus Eesti and AS GRK Infra won the contract, the PPA said.
The Ministry of the Interior hopes that by the end of next year, 200-300 people have been recruited to the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) crisis reserve, that is the internal defense reserve, for which the government has allocated money in next year s state budget, the daily Postimees reported. In a four-year perspective, if we use the maximum options, we would need an estimated budget of €18-20 million, but for 2021 we have the resources to create this reserve and contribute two million euros to the crisis readiness of the Police and Border Guard Board, Toomas Malva, internal security and crisis preparedness adviser at the Ministry of the Interior, said. He added that the main expenses include the reserve s equipment and training.