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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Sandra Taimre Last February, Hansabank Viru centre office gave a young Estonian woman who had been charged criminally several times a complete stranger's banking card which was used in taking SMS-loan. Anni Orav went on February 18 to a Viru centre current Swedbank office with a stolen ID card to ask banking card and user name and password of Internet bank for taking the loan. The bank...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Tallinn Airport’s service is the best in the world. Sandra Taimre German airline Lufthansa named the service of passengers and aircraft of Tallinn Airport subsidiary the most punctual in the world. The service of Tallinn Airport was the best among the 960 airports in the world where Lufthansa is flying to, postimees.ee writes. The criteria for evaluation was the punctuality of flights,...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Sandra Taimre Per Brinkenberg, manager of the new Peugeot dealer K.W. Bruun Estonia, forecasts that the car sales market will drop 10 pct this year and faces a slight fall also next year. “We forecast the sales volume of new cars to total 28,000 cars in Estonia in 2008 which is 10 pct less than last year. The sales figures of Peugeot should amount about 1,000 cars,” Brinkenberg said in...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Sandra Taimre Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip said that it is likely that the unemployment will increase in Estonia, ERR News writes. Ansip said at government press conference that the unemployment has been the lowest, totaling 4 pct in the second quarter but we have no reasons to believe that it will stay that low. “Real estate bubble has burst and there are not so many orders for...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Sandra Taimre Tarmu Tammerk, the chairman of the association Corruption Free Estonia, said that he personally thought Estonia’s ranking in the standing of corruption will be worse than last year due the several corruption cases in the country during the year. “But it came out that those cases have not taken us down in the standing of corruption perception,” Tammerk said and added that...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Sandra Taimre Estonian virtual mobile operator Bravocom promises to open its own mobile communications network in Tallinn by the end of 2008. “The testing network is already operating. By the end of this year we will cover Tallinn and its environs with a 3.5G network and open it for commercial use,” Jaanus Kikas, board member of ProGroup Holding that operates the virtual mobile operator,...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Sandra Taimre Traffic expert Aarne Rentnik said that the traffic in Tallinn congests fast and a car ride from home to the office may take twice as much in four years. Rentnik noted that the average speed during rush hour decreases 2 km/h in a year. For example, if now it takes 30 minutes to drive from home to work then in four years it will take an hour, postimees.ee writes. “In Tallinn,...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Sandra Taimre By the beginning of August, Estonian Labor Inspection had received more labor disputes than it received during the last year, majority of them were connected with monetary claims, aripaev.ee quotes dv.ee. The number of labor dispute applications had reached 3,000 by the beginning of August. That is equal to the total number of disputes in 2007. We can presume that by the...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Sandra Taimre During the 2011 Population and Housing Census, Statistics Estonia is planning to use e-census for the first time in the history of Estonian censuses. The census enables the residents of Estonia and those who are temporarily staying abroad to submit the data electronically. As previously, it is also possible to present the data to the enumerator during the face-to-face interview....
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Sandra Taimre CEO of Draka Keila Cables AS, Tarvo Leppik, told aripaev.ee that he believes in the banks operating in Estonia and he is not afraid they’d file bankrupt. Olle Horm, CEO of the construction company Skanska EMV, didn’t exclude the possibility. Leppik said that he sees no reason why the banks should file bankruptcy. If aripaev.ee asked him, whether the recent news about the...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Sandra Taimre Former development director of Estonian fashion retailer Baltika, Jaan Järv, said that expanding to new markets is easier in countries with similar background and added that Estonia resembles more to Russia than to Sweden, aripaev.ee writes. “We have to understand that markets to not end with countries borders. Companies that are moving further from the domestic market are...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Sandra Taimre The number of direct flights from Tallinn will be cut for winter season, Polish LOT will cut back the flights on Tallinn-Warsaw route. The winter season flight plans will be validated internationally at the end of October. LOT’s Tallinn-Warsaw route is not mentioned in the new plan. At the moment it’s not clear if the company will continue operating on the line in spring,...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Sandra Taimre Fuel retailer Neste lowered prices of petrol and diesel fuel by EEK 0.50 yesterday morning. The company reasoned it with lower purchase prices, postimees.ee writes. Alexeal followed Neste’s lead and is now changing the prices of petrol and diesel fuel. “Motor fuels in the world have become cheaper. It is clear by today that this direction continues and sooner or later the...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Sandra Taimre Estonia and Russia are the only Eastern European countries where no business improving reforms were carried out during the last year, arileht.ee writes. Estonia fell four positions in the World Banks’ “Doing business” index that measures the quality of business environment. This year we were 22nd, last year 18th. The position is still high if to consider that 181 countries...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Sandra Taimre Estonian government decided to raise the special benefit rate on company cars, the decision will take effect at the end of the year. According to the changes in the draft act, the taxed value of using company’s car for private purposes will be changed but the current taxation procedure will remain the same, aripaev.ee writes. The maximum rate of the benefit will rise from...
