Defense spending amounting to 2 percent of Estonia's gross domestic product is an absolute necessity, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip said on Friday.
Estonia's Interior Minister Ken-Marti Vaher will nominate Arnold Sinisalu for director general of the security police.
Gaming group Olympic Entertainment Group saw the biggest turnover on the Tallinn stock exchange in the past week while garment group Baltika fell 6.92 percent.
The opposition Center Party is the most likely winner of the upcoming local polls across Estonia and in the capital Tallinn but lacks the opportunity to secure an absolute majority in the capital city by a narrow margin, a special survey focusing on local elections that TNS Emor conducted for public broadcaster ERR showed.