DUBAI, 23rd October, 2021 (WAM) The UAE Space Agency has held high-level bilateral talks with a delegation of senior government and business officials from the Republic of Estonia to accelerate collaboration and the transfer of space-related technologies and services.
Salem Butti Salem Al Qubaisi, Director-General of the UAE Space Agency, met with Sille Kraam, Deputy Secretary-General for Business and Consumer Environment, at Estonia’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications at the Estonia Pavilion.
Taking place on the sidelines of Expo 2020 Dubai’s Space Week,.
The government has followed through on its plan to merge the state credit agency, KredEx, with Enterprise Estonia (EAS), a body which concentrates on innovation, trade, foreign investment and the e-state.
The merger was already decided on at the end of April, while the government officially endorsed the move Thursday, BNS reports.
The merger is expected to save over €140,000 in 2021 alone, at a time when the Reform/Center coalition is pursuing an austerity drive.
Reform s IT and foreign trade minister Andres Sutt (pictured) said: We have set the goal of legally merging the two institutions into one by the beginning of next year.