Under a bill drawn up by the Ministry of Social Affairs, family benefits will be increasing from next year in accordance with the Reform-Isamaa-SDE coalition agreement. Children through age 23, however, will not yet count toward qualifying for large family benefits.
Around a tenth of the funds in the annual regional investments distribution scheme which accompanies the Riigikogu's processing of the annual state budget will be allocated to churches or religious associations, pending approval of applications.
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While the Reform Party s intention of limiting freedom of speech might be aimed at reducing social conflict, it entails too many dangers. Every public and private conversation will be given a much more rigid frame, Cornelia Kangur and Karl Sander Kase write.
In December of 2015, several well-known singers sang the following lines on Eesti Televisioon (ETV): Only nature knows, as does the fatherland (possible reference to the Isamaa party – ed.) that a nigger belongs in Africa. We can tolerate them far away over there along with all other species of animal.
Had Estonia the kind of hate speech legislation the Reform Party is now looking to introduce back in 2015, news coverage might have read something along the lines of: