Euroskeptic Nationalists Set to Enter Government in Estonia
- Ruling Center Party outmanoeuvers election winning Reform
- Coalition pact doesn’t shift Baltic state’s orientation
The old city harbor at the Port of Tallinn in Tallinn, Estonia.
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Estonia moved closer to forming a government that includes an anti-immigrant party, potentially strengthening the hand of nationalists before May’s European Union elections.
While a pro-European liberal won Slovakia’s presidential vote this month -- denting a populist expansion in the bloc’s eastern wing -- Estonia’s EKRE holds euroskeptic views similar to those of ruling parties in Hungary and Poland. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is threatening to walk away from the EU parliament’s mainstream bloc.