The outgoing year's major keywords are the coronavirus and energy crises, U.S. and German elections and the government's difficult road in Estonia, guests of "Rahva teenrid," Eesti Päevaleht and Delfi Editor-in-Chief Urmo Soonvald and Äripäev Editor-in-Chief Meelis Mandel, and host Mirko Ojakivi found on Saturday.
The Center Party will cover the legal costs of one of its MPs, who faces both a criminal trial and a civil trial in the new year. The hearings arose from allegations the MP, Mailis Reps, misused ministry funds while she was education minister.
The Ministry of Education and Research is seeking damages of close to €120,000 from former education minister Mailis Reps. Reps stepped down over a year ago over an expenses scandal and the alleged misuse of ministry funds, though the sums mentioned up until this point had been in the thousands of euros.
An education ministry action plan aimed at transitioning to all-Estonian education in schools by 2035 has not met with the approval of the Center Party, one of its ministers told ETV news show 'Aktuaalne kaamera' (AK) Monday night.
Former education minister Mailis Reps' (Center) preliminary hearing will take place in January. Reps stands charged with embezzlment and fraud stemming back to her term in office, while the investigation was prompted by media reports starting over a year ago.