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Estonia’s Prime Minister, attends the EU-LAC summit in Madrid

Another business moment for Estonia. Estonia’s Prime Minister, Andrus Ansip attended the EU-LAC summit in Madrid on May 18th. Assuming approval from the European Central Bank Estonia is on track to join the Euro in 2011. Despite Estonia’s lack of financial clout compared other Euro members such as Germany, during today’s economic instability Estonia is...

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Estonia’s Minister of Education calls for Universities to Strengthen ties with Society

Estonia’s Minister of education, Tonis Lucas, during his speech at a seminar on managing universities stated that Estonian universities suffer from individual isolation, that they should be more involved with society and that they squander resources replicating each other’s work. Minister Lucas said that other European countries, such as close neighbours Finland and Lithuania,...

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Estonia’s European Union Bid

Estonia’s bid to enter the European Union has the support of the Lithuanian and the Latvian prime ministers it was decided at a recent meeting between the two officials. The Two Prime Ministers saw Estonia’s acceptance to the Euro zone as a positive indicator of further economic growth of the Baltic region. “Estonia’s success...

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Estonia joins the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Estonia will be invited to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on 27 May 2010. OECD unites governments of countries from around the world that are committed to the market economy and democracy with currently at over 30 countries participating. This would help in areas for example development,  finance, growth and where also governments can seek advice on particular...

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Estonian-Latvian promoted Co-Operation

Only recently Aivis Ronis, Latvia’s new foreign minster met with Urmas Paet, Estonia Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Tallin, Estonia. Their discussions centred on relations between their two countries, the promotion of shared goals and improved co-operation. Ideally Improvements would become visible before completion of a scheduled report on the future of relations between...

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Estonia present at Shanghai World Expo 2010

Estonia, one off many countries participating at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo 2010. This is very important to the Baltic State and is a pure example of how well Estonia has moved on over the years and especially now appearing at this event. This is a great platform for them to introduce in the fields...

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    Work is underway designing tiny robotic cubes imbedded with magnets on each plane that can create a duplicate of any object, either equal in size to the original or any size version as required. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Robotics department are currently working with two dimensional cubes of four sides, each cube containing a microprocessor wit […]
  • Lumia Hits us for a score of 900
    Mobile Phone Lumia 900 is here to stay. Lumia 900 is here thanks once again to the Finland Company Nokia. This is great news for the mobile phone giant that is presenting this device at a low cost and a streamlined design with a front-facing camera for video conferencing. This is putting it on the same playing field as the likes of Samsung and Apple that now […]
  • Google And Microsoft To Encourage The Future of British ICT Education
    The government has finally agreed that creative and motivating ICT classes be reintroduced to the classroom by teaching children to program and put computer science back in the core of ICT lessons. The Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove is reported as saying that the present ICT curriculum was ‘demotivating and dull’. Advising Mr Gove on implemen […]

 

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  • Qatar, UAE urge citizens to stay away from Lebanon May 19, 2012
    DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar and the United Arab Emirates urged their citizens to stay away from Lebanon, citing security concerns in a country where fighting prompted by sectarian tensions in neighbouring Syria has unsettled areas near a northern port. […]
  • Refloat of Italy's Concordia wreck to be biggest ever May 19, 2012
    ROME (Reuters) - Salvage crews will employ huge cranes and air tanks to refloat the half-submerged Costa Concordia cruise liner in the largest ever operation of its kind, according to a plan unveiled on Friday. […]