The level of state funding set aside to fix Estonia's roads is no longer enough to carry out the minimum required maintenance, construction companies said on Tuesday.
Estonia's Ministry of Economic Affairs is hoping for a temporary exemption to EU competition rules which would give the country priority status when buying liquified natural gas (LNG) from Finland.
Minister of Economic Affairs Riina Sikkut (SDE) is being treated unfairly now. When we heard the news the day before yesterday that the LNG terminal would be located in Finland after all, rather than in Paldiski in Estonia, it was Sikkut who came under the sharpest criticism. Even if one can agree that she has made some mistakes, in the grand scheme of things it had already been decided by the time she took office.
Estonia's gas supply is guaranteed wherever the LNG storage vessel docks and preferential terms for local companies are "super good news", head of Eesti Gaas Margus Kaasik said, after it was reported on Monday afternoon that the ship will initially be based in Finland.
Estonia's gas supply would not be severely impacted if something were to happen to the pipeline between Estonia and Finland, system manager Elering said on Wednesday. The country would still receive gas from reserves in Latvia and Lithuania's LNG terminal.