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" The E.U. is more resilient than we give it credit for. We always muddle through. "

Kersti Kaljulaid

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" Estonia maintains a two-language school system. I don't know many countries in the world that provide a system like ours. We are making sure that our Russian-speaking minority feels comfortable and involved in this country. "

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" 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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" 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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" Too many people in the world associate democracy with their ability to go and buy more and more every year. I come from a country where it's much more popular to remind people that democracy is available at every income level, and this is something which you need to protect. "

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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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" In Estonia, the Russian minority can move freely, travel freely, work anywhere in Europe. "

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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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" 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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" Traditionally, nations have harnessed taxpayers to their territory by making almost all social guarantees dependent on working in one country, every day, every month, and for at least three decades. In creating free movement of people, this web has only got more complex but never disappeared. "

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" From kindergarten, I knew that politics is something that you talk about only at home, because if you weren't quiet, your parents might be taken to prison. All Estonian families have these kind of stories. "

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" It is interesting that cyberwarfare is developing into something conventional and attacking objects, infrastructure, and critical services. "

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" The problem is if Russia is organising exercises - and not being transparent about what exactly these exercises are about - it creates suspicions as to their objectives. "

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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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" Sometimes I hear, particularly from Russia, that we simply hate Russia and don't like to co-operate, that we are hysterical about the risks. But this is totally untrue. We would greatly benefit economically if our neighbour was a democratic, developing country. "

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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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" 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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" In Estonia, our greatest national treasure is our egalitarian educational system. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" Our people are willing to work with the government on new technologies. Now, it's a habit; every Estonian looks at it as part of our national identity. We understand that this allows us to provide better services to our people than our money would allow. "

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" Everybody has the right to decide their own fate. "

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" We have every reason to put our trust in NATO and in transatlantic cooperation. "

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" I am very worried about politicians who know that their countries are greatly benefiting financially and at the same time are saying that the European Union is not good for us. The message has to be coherent. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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