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The Estonian government will focus more on reducing obstacles hindering foreign investments and on increasing the investment-friendliness of different regions of the country, was decided at yesterday’s meeting of the Economic Development Committee of the government.* According to Prime Minister Jüri Ratas, all...
AS Tallink Grupp has today released its passenger and cargo transport statistics for the first quarter of 2018. The Group reports transporting 1,930,449 passengers in the first quarter of 2018, which is 0.5% less than in the same period in 2017. At the same time, the number of cargo units transported by the Group...
In the international journal Limnology and Oceanography, the Rostock marine biologist Natalie Loick-Wilde reports about a study in the central Baltic Sea with which she and her colleagues from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde and the US-American Georgia Institute of Technology succeeded in...
Minister for Infrastructure Tomas Eneroth and Minister for the Environment Karolina Skog have announced how the new provisions on low emission zones would be designed. The Government will give municipalities the possibility of introducing three different kinds of low emission zones as of 1 January 2020. Air...
Politik: Überarbeitung des Ostsee-Aktionsplans: Der Ostsee-Aktionsplan soll bis spätestens 2021 überarbeitet werden, damit die Ostsee wieder in einen guten Zustand kommt. Auf diesen Fahrplan verständigten sich die Umweltministerinnen und Umweltminister der Ostsee-Anrainerstaaten auf der Konferenz des Helsinki...
2017 set a record for the danish citizens’ use of public sector digital services. Records were set for the number of messages sent by Digital Post (the digital letter box provided by government to citizens and businesses for communications from and to public authorities) and for NemID (the public sector electronic ID...
Reducing by-catch rates, preserving biodiversity and at the same time ensuring profitability – these are essential aspects of a sustainable fishing industry. A new acoustic warning device has been developed and successfully tested in a research project. This warning device reduced by-catch of harbour porpoises by 70...
By Alan AtKisson* In the international community, when it comes to working with the 2030 Agenda and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed to by all the world’s nations in 2015, the phrase “no one left behind” is a constant and recurring theme. The phrase is usually interpreted as referring to addressing...
Politics: Green light for NorthStream 2: The Stralsund Mining Authority, which is responsible for approval in Germany’s coastal waters, gave the green light for the construction and operation of the 55 km pipeline in the German coastal sea. According to a spokesman for Nord Stream 2, preparatory measures such as...
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