Opinion

25.04.2024
The productivity of Estonian industrial companies falls below the European average. The use of artificial intelligence can boost productivity and competitiveness by making production management faster and more data-driven, writes Martin Rebane, AI expert at the AIRE Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.
17.04.2024
It’s hard to see a reason to continue supporting Estonia’s aviation sector. Past experience has simply led to too much disappointment, writes Karsten Staehr.
16.04.2024
We can no longer ignore the fact that around 4.2 billion people worldwide lack access to safely managed sanitation services, including clean drinking water. As a result, wastewater reuse is becoming another truly “hot” global topic—one that will also affect Estonia in the future.
15.04.2024
Generative artificial intelligence is a field whose adoption could bring revolutionary benefits – including in the world of finance.
27.03.2024
Establishing a single time zone in the European Union would facilitate business operations, reduce complexity in the transport and logistics sector, and promote international relations and cooperation, writes Mike Wahl, Associate Professor at the TalTech Department of Business Administration, in his commentary.
20.03.2024
The engineering shortage weighing on Estonia’s economy could be eased with three simple changes in school education that would cost virtually nothing, yet open the path to high incomes for thousands of young people and their families every year, suggests Veljo Konnimois, Chairman of the Council of the Estonian Mechanical Engineering Industry Association.
04.03.2024
There are differing views and interests when it comes to phosphate mining, but these must be resolved through democratic decision-making processes – so we cannot really speak of a war. The key is to take into account the interests of local communities.
29.02.2024
Observing Finland's wind energy plans helps illustrate the trend toward large-scale renewable electricity production, but Estonia's recent energy choices also look promising.
15.02.2024
Out of necessity, I’ve become thoroughly acquainted with the apartment market in central Tallinn. The process was marked–and somewhat slowed–by strong signs of professional bias, but in the end, I secured an apartment under the old VAT rate and gained plenty of firsthand experience along the way.