Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu (Isamaa), said Wednesday morning the ministry will be terminating its employment relationship with former MEP Indrek Tarand, after the latter was apprehended by the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA), driving under the influence of alcohol.
Minister of Health and Labor Peep Peterson (SDE) may end up running in the 2023 Riigikogu elections as the Social Democrats' top candidate in Pärnu County. Peterson is to discuss the possibility with leaders of the SDE's Pärnu County chapter on Monday.
Estonia will not be sending an ambassador to Belarus, given that it does not recognize the presidential elections just over two years ago which returned Alexander Lukashenko for a sixth term, but at the same time, it will maintain a diplomatic presence in Minsk, to be headed up by former MEP Indrek Tarand, focused mainly on consular activity.
Center Party MPs do not support in its current form a draft bill which would allow a bar on the display of provocative symbols relating to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, principally on the grounds of online hate speech provisions included in the same bill, ETV news show 'Aktuaalne kaamera' (AK) reported Monday night.