Employers want to develop Estonia's healthcare expenses compensation scheme further by hiking the cap of expenses exempt from tax and making more health services eligible. For example, employers could in the future compensate dental, rehabilitation or cancer treatments.
There will be no tax hikes during the eight months the incoming government of the Reform Party, Social Democrats and Isamaa will have in office before elections in 2023, Peep Peterson, the Social Democratic Party's candidate for minister of health and labor told Vikerraadio on Friday.
Estonia has seen the arrival of more than 22,000 Ukrainian refugees, while most of them cannot start working in Estonia without proof of having been granted temporary protection, with queues at the PPA stretching into weeks.
I suppose that the Riigikogu has lost the role a parliament should have in a parliamentary country. It is not a place of wise compromises based on the will of the people, which parliamentarism suggests it should be, but one where legislation that pleases the coalition is passed using brute force, Jaak Valge writes.