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" Everybody has the right to decide their own fate. "
Kersti Kaljulaid
Fate
Right
Decide
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" Every state aspiring to be part of the free world, able to decide its own destiny, deserves its chance. They may, in a not too distant future, contribute to all of us in ways we cannot imagine today. "
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" I don't believe Russia would attack a NATO country or NATO as such, no matter which country we are talking about. "
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" There are high hopes of France and what they're trying to achieve there by liberalising the labour market and other reforms. You lose some, you gain some. "
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" Digital society is born when your people refuse to use paper. And in our country, we know that our people refuse to use paper. If you arrive at such a point in your development, you have to make your digital state always secure. "
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" Most new jobs created by global digital opportunities make people more independent. Fewer people will work for one company at a time or in the same country all the time. More will work remotely across borders. "
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" Our main concern will always be security. "
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" In Estonia, the Russian minority can move freely, travel freely, work anywhere in Europe. "
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" The E.U. is a common platform where we come together and agree to do certain things. But the E.U. is never going to take over the responsibility which governments have for prosperity and security of their people. "
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" I must recall with gratitude those 178 Jewish women and men who participated in the Estonian War of Independence. Both of our nations know what it means to keep your identity and freedom even under the pressure of foreign powers, and we can be proud of their achievements. "
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" I don't know of any problems countries in Europe are facing - environment, infrastructure, markets, market development, the fifth freedom being digital freedom, border security, terrorism, migration - that can be better solved alone. "
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" People everywhere in the world have Russian connections. There is nothing wrong with having Russian connections as long as you're transparent about it. "
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" As the president of Estonia, I represent the only truly digital society which actually has a state; almost all our citizens' interactions with the government, including voting, can be done securely online, and our 'e-residents' can incorporate and run their businesses in Estonia without ever having to set foot here. "
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" The U.S., together with trans-Atlantic allies, never recognized the occupation of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union. Moscow faced pressure or retaliation every time it tried to move toward official recognition, or at least acceptance, of its claim that the Baltic states were Soviet republics. "
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Time
Recognition
Together
" Estonians are much more used to Internet banking rather than an online credit card. "
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Credit Card
More
Credit
" Industrial jobs are disappearing, and they will continue to disappear owing to productivity gains from automation. Thus, social models that were created to fit industrial and early service economies will no longer be viable. As the industrial workforce shrinks, the social model founded on it will go, too. "
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Early
Service
Disappear
" My mother was a doctor, and I grew up with her in a little apartment belonging to my grandmother, because the Soviet Union never saw fit to let our family have its own apartment. "
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Mother
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Doctor
" We want to be sure that both NATO's territory and NATO soldiers are well protected. We need to make sure that there is the air defense and the air support for these forces in case that is necessary. "
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Well
Support
Soldiers
" If we look decades ago, we know that NATO allies contributed a lot of equipment close to the border of the Soviet Union. "
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Union
NATO
" Small nations have no time for small goals - they have to think big in order to become contributors. "
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Think Big
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" Cyber attacks rain down on us from many places. You have to make your systems secure and safe and teach your people cyber hygiene. "
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" In Estonia, our greatest national treasure is our egalitarian educational system. "
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Greatest
" We've had Vice President Pence visiting Tallinn, where he met not only with me but also with my other Baltic colleagues - Lithuanian President Ms. Grybauskaite and Latvian President Mr. Vejonis. And, of course, Vice President Pence has been very clear that NATO acts as a whole. Attack against one is attack against all. "
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" Estonia is proud of the fact that the country today has a flourishing and happy Jewish life. "
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Proud
" Not everything is so bad... Whichever way you look at it, we feel that we can face the future when the liberal, democracy-based world sticks together. We have great trust that it will. "
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" NATO's deterrence has always been adequate, and I'm not worried about the physical security of my country. Not at all. "
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" We have every reason to put our trust in NATO and in transatlantic cooperation. "
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Trust
" Governments don't want to be the last ones in the digital sphere if their people and businesses are already there. We have to make clear that the free movement of services in the E.U. also applies in the digital sphere. The shortcut is to create a digital union. "
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" In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation. "
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" I don't want to sound like I'm a special type of Russia hater. There are very few heads of state in Europe that would not like to have very good relations with Russia. "
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" Globally, we need to make sure that markets are open... If we see that there are restrictions on free trade, then simple economic logic will demonstrate that this is not beneficial. "
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