Is the Estonia desk live on Nation Runner?

Yes. It draws the Riigikogu open member API, factions on 22 October 2026, the 5 March 2023 election result from the National Electoral Committee, and the government's page on the 54th Government, last updated 16 September 2026. It is an editorial dashboard, not an official record.

Which culture figures does the Estonia desk show?

Gallup’s Migrant Acceptance Index for Estonia in 2016 (2.37 out of 9) and the Migrant Integration Policy Index score of 51, with 2024 printed beside that score. No Pew row for Estonia is on the perceptions page, so none is added here.

Does the money tab score political donations in Estonia?

No. Zeros mean the access scale is not filled. A zero is not a finding that a party has no donors.

Country desk

Estonia

101 seats, and Estonian Reform Party holds 36.

Key takeaways

1
Parliament. Estonian Reform Party holds the most seats: 36 of 101 (36%). A majority needs 51.
2
Headlines. The tone is brightening: 8% of the last 13 days' headlines read grim, 5% upbeat. Top topic: Security (27%).
3
Government. Government barometer 62/100 (Builder). 0 of 2 moves on file read as smart, 0 as harmful.

Headline mood · 13 days

Line: mood · bars: stories

12 Nov · 2 stories · neutral0 upbeat · 2 neutral · 0 grim

What the headlines are about

Other 38%
Security 27%
Society 16%
Politics 11%
Economy 8%

A simple word-list estimate from the daily wire headlines. Not a judgement.

Who holds the seats · Riigikogu

101 seats · 51 for a majority (line)

Estonian Reform Party

36 seats · 35.6%

36 of 101 seats. The Riigikogu member API lists 36 members in the Reform Party faction on 22 October 2026, down from the 37 seats it won in 2023 with 31.24 percent. Norstat's poll of 21 September – 18 October 2026 printed 12.5 percent.

Map · mood compared

Estonia

Overall mood: 8% grim, 5% upbeat · today +0

What changed today

12 Nov: 2 stories (average 3); tone as usual.

Earlier this week: 10 more headlines

Estonia Expels Russian Citizen Linked to Intelligence Services
Police escorted Leonid Karabeshkin along wet pavement to Estonia's southern border, enforcing a Schengen-wide ban to shield national security.
X · 3 Nov
MARGUS KUUL ⟩ Maghreb Youth Seek a New French Identity as Government Determined to Stay Blind to Religion and Race
France is currently behaving like a sputtering internal combustion engine because the wrong fuel has flowed into the carburettor. At the same time, a historical pattern can be seen in the narrative of the ongoing nationwide riot, writes Colonel Margus Kuul, a doctoral student at the Estonian Military Academy.
Postimees News · 3 Nov
Police expel political scientist who was concerned about Russian interests
«At the proposal of the Internal Security Service (KAPO), the police expelled Russian citizen Leonid Karabeshkin from Estonia via the Koidula border crossing point early Monday morning, revoked his residence permit, and imposed a Schengen entry ban on him. The purpose of the expulsion is to prevent and thwart activities that threaten the security of Estonia and, more broadly, of Europe.
Postimees News · 3 Nov
Estonia Expels Russian Citizen Linked to Intelligence Services
Police escorted Leonid Karabeshkin along wet pavement to Estonia's southern border, enforcing a Schengen-wide ban to shield national security.
X · 4 Nov
MARGUS KUUL ⟩ Maghreb Youth Seek a New French Identity as Government Determined to Stay Blind to Religion and Race
France is currently behaving like a sputtering internal combustion engine because the wrong fuel has flowed into the carburettor. At the same time, a historical pattern can be seen in the narrative of the ongoing nationwide riot, writes Colonel Margus Kuul, a doctoral student at the Estonian Military Academy.
Postimees News · 4 Nov
Police expel political scientist who was concerned about Russian interests
«At the proposal of the Internal Security Service (KAPO), the police expelled Russian citizen Leonid Karabeshkin from Estonia via the Koidula border crossing point early Monday morning, revoked his residence permit, and imposed a Schengen entry ban on him. The purpose of the expulsion is to prevent and thwart activities that threaten the security of Estonia and, more broadly, of Europe.
Postimees News · 4 Nov
Chelsea U19 Stunned by FC Flora Tallinn in Youth League Upset
Chelsea's young Blues took an early lead at home, but Estonian side FC Flora Tallinn fought back with grit, clinching a dramatic 3-2 win and 5-4 aggregate victory.
X · 5 Nov
Tallinn FC Flora Stuns Chelsea U19 in Youth League Upset
Chelsea U19 took the lead twice at home, only for Estonian underdogs Tallinn FC Flora to fight back each time and claim a historic 3-2 win.
X · 6 Nov
VIKTORIA LADÕNSKAJA-KUBITS ⟩ We are on the threshold of a problem far greater than an armed threat
The longer the war lasts, the more deeply it permeates the entire society. Over the years, a citizen's initial neutrality can turn into a tacitly supportive stance, as an invisible bond of complicity also forms. But this is not the only complex question regarding Russia. The armed conflict is a phase before the next stage – an ideological war for the concept of "goodness," writes columnist Viktor…
Postimees News · 6 Nov
Starlink Enables Yacht Rescue and Remote Education
When the Estonian yacht Cekritito started sinking 155 nautical miles off Spain, Captain Madis Rallmann's Starlink connection sent a distress call that saved six lives.
X · 7 Nov

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Parties, people, promises, money

Seats 22 October 2026 · votes at that election

101 seats, and Estonian Reform Party holds 36.

The seat map is the Riigikogu open member API, factions on 22 October 2026. It shows 101 seats: Estonian Reform Party 36, Members outside any faction 20, Estonia 200 12, Social Democratic Party 9, Conservative People's Party of Estonia 9, Isamaa 8, Estonian Centre Party 7. A majority of 101 is 51. Faction counts have moved a long way since 2023, because members who leave a party cannot join another faction. Parempoolsed, which has no seat, polled 6.9 percent in the latest Norstat aggregate. The next Riigikogu election is due in March 2027. Vote shares are from the 5 March 2023 election result from the National Electoral Committee. They are a share of votes cast, not a share of seats.

A score on this desk is an editorial average of six work topics, times ten, with the method written on the row.

The room

Riigikogu

101 seats · 51 to govern alone · Estonian Reform Party and Estonia 200 48

The deal

Two coalition factions hold 48 of 101 seats

51 seats would be a majority of 101. The Reform Party faction has 36 members and Estonia 200 has 12, so the coalition factions count 48. 20 members sit outside any faction. The four opposition factions have 33 together.

The mood

Election vs now

The left bar is the vote share. The right bar is seats divided by 101. They are different counts.

Reform
12.5%
Non-attached
0.0%
Eesti 200
1.4%
SDE
16.1%
EKRE
14.0%
Isamaa
24.0%
Centre
21.7%

The first point is the 5 March 2023 Riigikogu election. The second and third points are Norstat's rolling four-week aggregates for the Institute for Societal Studies, as ERR reported them: 4,000 voting-age citizens each, 14 September – 12 October and 21 September – 18 October 2026. Norstat excludes respondents without a party preference, so the shares are of decided voters.

The trend

From election night to now

Public pollster blend — not a forecast

The split

Seat share beside the vote share

The right bar is seats divided by 101. The left bar is the vote share. The electoral system means the two differ.

The mismatch

Seats they hold vs the poll

The seat bar is seats divided by 101. The other bar is the Norstat poll of 21 September – 18 October 2026.

The rude gauge

Growth king or a fight with work

Who grows the pie, who picks a fight with work. Cabinet sits at 62 / 100. The number is an editorial reading, not an official index. Six topics are averaged and multiplied by ten: energy supply, hiring, keeping and investing money, building, hours in paid work, and paperwork. Ten means the public record makes that easier for work. Zero means it makes it harder. The band is a label for that average, not a court ruling.

Against the workBuilderGrowth king

Full causal chains live on every promise

This week

The pulse

Government2026-09-16

Cabinet page updated

The government page lists Prime Minister Kristen Michal and 12 ministers from the Reform Party and Estonia 200.

Polls2026-10-20

Coalition at 13.9 percent

Norstat put the two coalition parties at a combined 13.9 percent and the Riigikogu opposition at 75.8 percent, five months before the March 2027 election.

Politics 101

How this country actually works

What this chamber drawing is

101 seats. 51 to govern alone.

Who holds the offices this desk names

Kristen Michal, Prime Minister; Jürgen Ligi, Minister of Finance.

Office holders come from the government's page on the 54th Government, last updated 16 September 2026. Party leaders are named from the press reports linked on each bio.

How foreigners are seen

Openness in Estonia

Published surveys only. Each figure shows its source and year.

Who's welcomed

Share of adults in Estonia with a favourable opinion of each country Pew asked about. A view of a country, not of its people.

How would my country be seen here?

UnknownNo country view on file

Pew's 2025 Global Attitudes survey did not poll in Estonia, and no other survey of views of other countries is on this desk yet. Nothing is guessed. The other measures here, and the comparison below, still work.

Welcoming index

Derived from the two published measures below, not a survey result. Each input keeps its own year.

38.7/100

Mean of Gallup 2.37 of 9 (2016), rescaled to 26.3, and MIPEX 51 of 100 (2024).

The measures behind it (shown separately)

2.37/9People: acceptance of migrants
Gallup, 2016

51/100Law: integration policy
MIPEX, 2024

What expats say

InterNations Expat Insider 2022: rank out of 52 destinations, 1 is best.

Ease of settling in40 of 52
Culture and welcome32 of 52
Local friendliness46 of 52
Finding friends39 of 52

InterNations, Expat Insider 2022

All desks side by side

Pick a measure. Countries without a published figure show Unknown and sit at the end; they are not counted in the average.

Average of the 20 of 22 desks with a figure: 63.3 of 100. Unknown left out: Georgia, Thailand.

In plain words

Expats ranked Estonia 40 of 52 for ease of settling in (2022); its best sub-score was culture and welcome at 32.
No published survey here asks people about other countries, so who's welcomed is unknown for this country.

Sources and method are listed under “How we source this” at the bottom of the page.

What it means for you

Only figures with a source and a date. Each source is listed under “How we source this” at the bottom of the page. Anything not listed here is not on file.

Pay
The Ministry of Economic Affairs announced that the minimum monthly wage for full-time work rises to €946 from April 2026.
Taxes
The summary gives a standard rate of 24 percent, 13 percent on hotel accommodation and 9 percent on books, periodicals and listed medicines.
Business
Undistributed profits are tax exempt. Distributed profits are taxed at 22 percent, charged as 22/78 of the net distribution, so €100 of profit pays out €78 with €22 of tax.

Sources, licences and image credits

Data

The left bar is the vote share. The right bar is seats divided by 101. They are different counts.
Editorial economic-competence gauge, not a court and not a Nobel. Six axes: energy, hiring, capital, building, hours in work, red tape. Scores are a judgement from public records of this term and the last — not a bribery charge, not a voting recommendation.

Survey sources

Estonia — Gallup Migrant Acceptance Index 2016: Gallup. Neli Esipova, John Fleming and Julie Ray, “New Index Shows Least-, Most-Accepting Countries for Migrants”, Gallup, 23 August 2017. The full-country table lists Estonia at 2.37. The survey-methods note says the index was asked in 138 countries in 2016, so the year used here is 2016. Source. Gallup allows a contextual citation when the publication date and a link are given. The table and graphics are not reproduced.
Estonia — MIPEX overall score 2024: MIPEX. Migrant Integration Policy Index, Estonia country page. The block headed 2024 prints “MIPEX Score (with Health): 51” and the label “Comprehensive”. Source. The overall score is cited from the country page. The report is not reproduced.

Image credits

Estonian Reform Party mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
Estonia 200 mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
Social Democratic Party mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
Conservative People's Party of Estonia mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
Isamaa mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
Estonian Centre Party mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
Members outside any faction mark — Nation Runner · Original geometric mark. Not an official party logo. Public domain. Source
Flag of Estonia — Wikimedia Commons · Public domain Source

Questions the desk actually answers

FAQ

Questions the desk actually answers

Is the Estonia desk live on Nation Runner?: Yes. It draws the Riigikogu open member API, factions on 22 October 2026, the 5 March 2023 election result from the National Electoral Committee, and the government's page on the 54th Government, last updated 16 September 2026. It is an editorial dashboard, not an official record.
Which culture figures does the Estonia desk show?: Gallup’s Migrant Acceptance Index for Estonia in 2016 (2.37 out of 9) and the Migrant Integration Policy Index score of 51, with 2024 printed beside that score. No Pew row for Estonia is on the perceptions page, so none is added here.
Does the money tab score political donations in Estonia?: No. Zeros mean the access scale is not filled. A zero is not a finding that a party has no donors.

How we source this

Seats: the Riigikogu open member API, factions on 22 October 2026. Votes: the 5 March 2023 election result from the National Electoral Committee. Ballot support: Norstat, 14 Sep–12 Oct 2026; Norstat, 21 Sep–18 Oct 2026. Offices: the government's page on the 54th Government, last updated 16 September 2026. Culture: Gallup 2016 and the Migrant Integration Policy Index block headed 2024.

How foreigners are seen

Pew asks adults for their opinion of a country. That is a view of the country, not of its people or of any visitor. We never estimate a pair that was not asked; it shows as unknown.

InterNations ranks come from expats living in the country (46 destinations in 2025). Gallup's Migrant Acceptance Index runs from 0 to 9. MIPEX scores integration law and policy from 0 to 100.

Welcoming index: the mean of the Gallup index rescaled to 0–100 (score ÷ 9 × 100) and the MIPEX overall score, rounded to one decimal. It is derived, not a survey result, and the two inputs come from different years. If either input is missing the index is unknown: it is not estimated, it sorts last and it is left out of the average.

What it means for you

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, minimum wage from April 2026, data as of 2026-03-24
PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Estonia, other taxes, data as of 2026-05-29
PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Estonia, taxes on corporate income, data as of 2026-05-29