ESTONIA: Almost extinguished, successfully reborn
The following text is the shortest possible review to help inform friends and guests from abroad about Estonia’s experience with foreign occupation and totalitarianism as well as its road to peacefully re-establishing national inde-pendence on the basis of democracy. Tunne Kelam Member of the European Parlament
The following text is the shortest possible review to help inform
friends and guests from abroad about Estonia’s experience with
foreign occupation and totalitarianism as well as its road to
peacefully re-establishing national inde-pendence on the basis
of democracy.
Tunne Kelam
Member of the European Parlament
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<strong>ESTONIA</strong>:<br />
REPUBLIC<br />
OF <strong>ESTONIA</strong><br />
100<br />
A Brief Political Chronology<br />
• 31 August 1994 – Last Russian troops leave<br />
country. World War II ends for Estonia.<br />
• April-May 2004 – Estonia as well as other two Baltic<br />
States become full members of NATO and European<br />
Union. June 2004 referendum confirms by 63%<br />
Estonia’s EU membership.<br />
• 1 January 2011 – Estonia adopts Euro as its<br />
currency.<br />
• 1 July 2017 – Estonia assumes Presidency of the<br />
European Council for the first time.<br />
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