Editor’s Note: Estonia’s Victory Day offers a timely lens for examining how historical memory, national resilience, and modern deterrence intersect on NATO’s eastern flank. This article connects the June 23 commemoration of the 1919 Battle of Võnnu/Cēsis with Estonia’s current
Editor’s Note: A small Baltic state has just sketched the first national answer to a question every digital economy is about to face: when software starts acting for us, how does anyone know what it is allowed to do, and
Editor’s Note: Startup accelerators have long focused on helping founders move faster. At Latitude59 in Tallinn, accelerator leaders, investors, and founders argued that artificial intelligence is changing that equation, increasing the value of judgment, mentorship, and critical questioning. A Future
Editor’s Note: Estonia’s justice ministry wants to end what its own minister calls a “completely abnormal” practice: police demanding years of email correspondence from service providers with no scope limits. The timing gives the story weight well beyond the Baltics.
Editor’s Note: Europe’s case for owning its own AI stack moved from policy paper to investor pitch on Friday morning at Latitude59. Across the first five back-to-back morning sessions on the Bold Stage in Tallinn, followed by a 450,000-euro pitch-competition
Editor’s Note: Recent drone incursions in allied airspace, an Estonian missile-defense startup pitching itself as the next missile house of Europe and President Alar Karis’s remarks on AI, education, and skills as one of the key questions of the time
Editor’s Note: Estonia is positioning regulatory experimentation as a competitive instrument by building a sandbox framework that can grant companies real legal exemptions, rather than guidance on how to comply with existing rules. Reported from the opening of Latitude59 in
Editor’s Note: Tallinn becomes the gateway to the New Nordics this week, and the seven startups taking the Latitude59 main stage May 22 will show what Baltic-Nordic angel investors call the defining pillars of European early-stage tech in 2026. The
Editor’s Note: Day 2 of FutureLaw 2026 in Tallinn took the conference’s earlier framing and put a price tag on it. Uwais Iqbal’s keynote on hard truths from a production AI workbench used by tenancy-deposit-protection adjudicators reframed how legal AI should
Editor’s Note: FutureLaw 2026’s Day One morning argued for who should govern AI. The mid-day and early-afternoon program made the messier case for who should build with it. Six sessions covered here — a trust panel, a legal-ops panel, a
