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Gazprom's Nord Stream hires ex-Finnish PM Lipponen

15.08.2008, 16:54

Nord Stream AG, the Russian-German venture building a natural-gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea, hired a former Finnish prime minister to advise on ecological issues, Bloomberg writes.

Paavo Lipponen, who served as premier from 1995 to 2003, agreed to join the OAO Gazprom project as an independent consultant to offer advice on the Environmental Impact Assessment and permit application in Finland.

Nord Stream, a planned 1,200-kilometer (750-mile) pipeline, has encountered environmental and political opposition from countries along its route.

The project, overseen by former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, has pushed back the start-date to 2011 from 2010 and raised the budget to pay for additional environmental safeguards.

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Paavo was always for sale. Previously he got his kicks from getting fame and recognition, now he wants money too.

Regarding the pipeline, it is thoroughly a geopolitical venture, not economic. It would be cheaper to run the pipeline through the Baltic states. However, Russia does not want to cooperate with the Baltics, but to bypass them.

It is all about "divide et impera"; to get Western European countries addicted to Russian energy, so that they would not dare to object Russia roughing its "near abroad".

~Polpa di Pomodoro [22.08.2008, 09:56]

Of course. Because the irregular way the judge announced his judgement is suspicious (and you would think so too if you were on the losing end of a lawsuit) and the award was beyond belief. A don't agreement with such awards, even in America. The whole case smacks of corruption and I hope it will be remedied on appeal. Notice I didn't say that Telenor shouldn't pay anything at all. I said they should win the appeal (which challenges the amount as unfair and out of proportion to the case at hand - any legal analyst would agree).

~Tallinn [20.08.2008, 22:34]

Tallinn
You said, that you hope, it will be reversed in appeal. In your new comment you speak about, legal right to appeal. This is something else, then koping that the verdict will be reversed.

~Maarten van Gent [20.08.2008, 21:53]

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Estonia to sell quota
for a billion kroons

Estonian ministry of environmental affairs has approved draft agreement to sell spare emission allowances to Spain for 688 million kroons and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. for an unspecified price, according to a statement on the ministry’s website, reported Bloomberg.

June retail sales
fell 7% in a year

Retail sales volume decreased 7% at constant prices in June year on year. According to Statistics Estonia, retail sales have been declining during the whole year in annual terms: in January retail sales decreased 12%, in February 11%, in March and April 9% and in May 5% compared to the respective months a year ago.

airBaltic may expand its taxi service into Estonia

Baltic Taxi, a taxi company in which Bertold Flick, president of airBaltic, owns 51%, has announced its intention to expand into Estonia, Lithuania and Ukraine.COMMENTS (10)

Latvia, Estonia
at extreme ends

According to Eurostat, Estonia posted EU's second-largest annual fall in the number of airline passengers in 2009. The worst decline was posted in Lithuania. COMMENTS (3)

Big Mac index:
Baltic currencies
25-30% undervalued

According to a new Big Mac index published by The Economist this week, the Estonian kroon is 30% undervalued against the US dollar. A year earlier the kroon was 20% undervalued.COMMENTS (14)

Value of property deals continues
to fall in Estonia

In the first six months, there were 19,002 real estate transactions in Estonia worth 9.83 billion kroons. A year earlier, the figures were 18,914 and 11 billion kroons.

Exports up 38%, imports 47% in May

In May exports of goods from Estonia amounted to 11.3 billion kroons and were 38% higher than a year earlier. Imports were up 47% to 12.5 billion kroons. Trade deficit stood at 1.2 billion kroons and was four times more than in May 2009.COMMENTS (14)

Paper: Finnair not
amused by airBaltic

Finnish government-controlled carrier Finnair tried to buy Finncomm in June in an effort to prevent the smaller carrier from being bought by Latvian rival airBaltic, Finnish business daily Kauppalehti reported on Wednesday.COMMENTS (10)

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Poland’s largest private equity fund to purchase a third of Webmedia

Enterprise Investors, Poland’s largest private equity fund, will buy a 36 percent stake in Webmedia Group to fund an expansion abroad by Estonia’s largest computer software company.COMMENTS (5)

Fitch ups credit rating on euro

Fitch Ratings on Monday raised Estonia’s credit grade as Estonia prepares to become the third east European member of the euro region in January after outperforming the bloc’s existing members on fiscal criteria, writes Bloomberg.COMMENTS (3)

Paper: Tallink's fares have become a mystery

Tallink Grupp's new pricing system on its Tallinn-Helsinki line is confusing many passengers.COMMENTS (11)

Employee: Selver to lay off more than 100

Selver chain of grocery stores plans to lay off more than 100 people by this autumn, according to an unnamed employee.COMMENTS (35)

Estonia may grow 3.6% in average in next decade

Estonian economy may grow 3.6% on average next year through 2020 thanks to a favorable business environment, the Economist Intelligence Unit said.COMMENTS (23)

Estonia posted EU's highest growth in industrial production

Estonia recorded te highest annual increase in industrial production in May 2010(+17.2%), followed by Luxembourg (+13.5%), Sweden (+13.4%), Latvia (+13.2%) and Germany (+13.1%), reported Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.COMMENTS (6)

Estonia to switch to euro at current rate

Estonia will switch to the euro at the current target exchange rate when it enters the monetary union next year, European finance ministers decided.COMMENTS (59)

Customers pay banks billions in service fees

Estonian daughters of large Scandinavian parent banks earned about two billion kroons in service fees alone last year. Swedbank earned over 900 million kroons in service fees or 736 kroons per customer. SEB earned over 800 million, mainly in card and transaction fees, writes Äripäev.COMMENTS (15)

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Estonian Air CEO:
we are negotiating
a new contract

Andrus Aljas, CEO of Estonian Air, confirmed to ERR today that the contract which Estonian Air had signed for the delivery of three Bombardier aircraft had been terminated before due date.COMMENTS (11)

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Ansip: July inflation
to be much lower

Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip said the inflation rate in July will be much lower than the June reading, in comments delivered at a press conference in Tallinn today. COMMENTS (17)

airBaltic to add 14 destinations in winter

Latvian national airline airBaltic said this week it plans to add new destinations in the next winter season and offer additional flights. For the winter, the airline plans to add fourteen new destinations and increase flight frequencies on more than twenty routes.COMMENTS (2)

May retail sales
down 5% year on year

Retail sales in May were still below last year's level, but the gap at 5% was lower that in January (-12%), February (-11%), March (-9%) and April (-9%). COMMENTS (3)

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Adventures of rich Estonians in Bulgaria

Below is the article on how rich Estonians who invested in the real estate of the Black Sea seaside resort in Varna, Bulgaria, fell victim to a scam of the local Chechen criminal gang and lost millions. COMMENTS (1)

Small shareholders
of Norma: "It's unfair"

Although Norma, the Estonian seatbelt maker that belongs to Autoliv, is officially delisted from Tallinn Stock Exchange from today, more than 500 small shareholders refused to accept the takeover price offered by Autoliv, writes Aripaev.

Head of SEB:
property prices not to peak any time soon

Riho Unt, board chairman of SEB and head of the Estonian Banking Association, believes that it will be at least ten years before real estate prices will peak.COMMENTS (11)

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