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Some things are clearer, but a solution is not yet in sight. On Thursday, the Supreme Court announced that it agrees with the complaint of President Alar Karis, which is that the Riigikogu has passed the Land Tax Act unconstitutionally. As we know, the government tied the bill to a vote of confidence, the president rejected it, after which the coalition adopted the law in the Riigikogu for the second time in completely unchanged form. ....
Chairman of the Riigikogu's Estonia-Taiwan friendship group Kristo Enn Vaga said at the group's meeting with Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu that there is interest in Estonia in strengthening relations with Taiwan, and to illustrate this, the parliamentary friendship group includes representatives of all political parties represented in the Riigikogu. ....
The foreign affairs committee of the Estonian parliament made a proposal to the language committee of the Estonian Language Society to consider starting to use the name Konigsberg instead of Kaliningrad in Estonian. ....
Estonian President Alar Karis said in a speech made at the opening sitting of the fall session of the Riigikogu on Monday that governance must be subject to parliamentary control and the governing political parties must have the opportunity to implement their program, but in a way that is compatible with the rule of law. ....