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Outgoing ministers to receive benefit equaling six months pay

Ministers of Estonia s outgoing government are to receive a benefit equaling six months pay, totaling €33,975. A government minister s monthly salary is €5,662 and upon leaving office, a benefit of €33,975 will be paid out to each of them, spokespeople for the government said. The benefit will only be paid to the ministers who will neither take up a seat in the parliament nor start work in the incoming government. The ministers who are joining the parliament will not receive the benefit; instead, they will earn a monthly salary of a parliament member amounting to €4,330 with their reimbursement of expenses totaling up to one-third of the monthly remuneration.

ERR News looks back at 2020 in Estonia

ERR News looks back at 2020 which was, if nothing else, an eventful year. As no one needs reminding, 2020 was dominated by the coronavirus pandemic and its knock-on effects on everyday life and the economy, several EKRE-led scandals and the upcoming marriage referendum. But other, more positive events also occurred, such as Estonia taking up its first non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. The ERR News team has looked back over the top stories of 2020. January The year started with Estonia formally commencing its two-year stint as a non-permanent member on the UN Security Council (UNSC). Estonia had been awarded the post in June the previous year, and joined Niger, Tunisia, Vietnam and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as non-permanent members for 2020-2021.

Draft law would bar ministers from working in same field for one year

0 >Jüri Ratas and Janek Mäggi at Centre Party headquarters in Tallinn on election night. Source: Priit Mürk/ERR The Ministry of Justice has drawn up a draft law in accordance to European Union recommendations that would bar an outgoing minister from working in leading positions in the field of their former ministry. This change would not however rule out lobbying. When building his last government, Jüri Ratas called up the owner of communications firm Powerhouse Janek Mäggi to become his public administration minister. This hire created many questions in the public, asking if perhaps Mäggi had represented some of his colleagues while being a minister himself.

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