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Building Civic Resilience: Challenges and Solutions in Central Europe
12 December 2024
27 December 2018
Active NATO membership is a long-term strategic priority of Estonian security and defence policy (being a member since March 29th, 2004), which allows the country to productively participate in international security cooperation and to safeguard Estonia’s own security.
The international security environment has changed considerably over the past several years. This has resulted in the expansion of the concept of security to new areas such as terrorism, energy and cyber security, etc. Therefore, the requirements for ensuring security are changing over time for both NATO and Estonia.
We spoke to Estonia’s NATO Representative, Kyllike Sillaste-Elling, who elaborates on how security is important to her country and what is the phenomena of gender equality in security policy in Estonia.
Magda Jakubowska: In Estonia, the representation of female leaders engaged in politics, including the President – Kersti Kaljulaid, is quite high which is not the normal case in Eastern or Central Europe, though the pay gap is still quite large. What has caused these phenomena?