Bubble trouble: Estonia and the coronavirus crisis
With the advent of the second wave, the medical situation in all three Baltic countries is changing quickly and, therefore, demands some flexibility from them to adequately handle the crisis
Experts & Staff
Viljar Veebel
Baltic Defence College
ECFR associate researcher for Estonia
Jun 2013 — presentBiography
Dr. Viljar Veebel is a researcher at the Department of Political and Strategic Studies at the Baltic Defence College. The expertise of Viljar Veebel combines high-level academic knowledge and 20 years of fieldwork as a consultant in the EU institutions, member states and partner states. He has worked as an academic advisor to the Estonian government at the European Future Convention and as a researcher for OSCE, SIDA, the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, and Eurasia Group. In recent years, Viljar Veebel has been researching trends in Russian military capabilities and necessary counter-developments in the EU. Simultaneously, he has been working for UK and US government-financed defence-related projects in the Baltic States and Ukraine.
Pioneer and far: Estonia’s European ambitions
Estonian expertise can be of great use in strengthening Europe’s digital society, connecting governing institutions and citizens at the EU level, and improving connectivity between European countries