From 2003 until 2006, Ergma was President of the Riigikogu. From 2006 to 2007, she was the second Vice-President of the Riigikogu. On 2 April 2007 she was re-elected as President of the Riigikogu and kept the post until March 2014.
On 24 March, on the occasion of Johan Skytte memorial day, the UT Rector Professor Volli Kalm awards the Skytte medal to Professor emeritus Academician Ene Ergma. The medal acknowledges Ene Ergma's devotion to the wellbeing of Estonian higher education and research and development ...
In March, a new government won power in Estonia... But Kallas was forced to withdraw following allegations connected with his term as the president of national bank in 1990s ... The joy of six ... Decoy Ducks ... Their top candidates are Tunne Kelam, former party leader and MEP since 2004, and Ene Ergma, a veteran former speaker of the parliament ... .
TALLINN (AFP) – The small Baltic nation of Estonia reeled after 10 children perished in a fire that swept through a home for disabled youngsters, most of the residents of which were orphans ... A home that is supposed to be secure took the lives of those kids," speaker of parliament Ene Ergma said in a statement ... .
Ten children died have after a fire raced through an orphanage for disabled children in western Estonia... Viktor Saaremets, a spokesman for the Western Estonia Rescue Services Centre, said ... Tragedy ... Battle ... One adult was injured, Mr Saaremets said ... Ene Ergma, Speaker of the Estonian parliament, said ... Timber ... Ene Ergma, Speaker of the Estonian parliament.
Ene Ergma said during an open parliamentary session that "in a situation where Russia is using its energy supplies as a political weapon, it would be right to consider all ...
(AFP) ... His counterpart in Tallinn, Ene Ergma, said Estonia would use the visit to "dispel the misunderstandings" the Russians have about the removal of the monument to "a more suitable location.". "Mr Gryzlov asked me today on the phone whether we have already dismembered the monument," Ergma said. "This is utter nonsense ... AFP. ... ... .
Deputy parliamentary speaker Ene Ergma, 62, from the centre-right Res Publica grouping, is backed by four parties, three of them right-of-centre and one social democratic ... But the four parties that support her are three votes short of the 68 needed in the 101-member single-chamber parliament for Ergma be elected.
The previous day, deputy parliamentary speaker Ene Ergma missed out by just three votes ... "The parliament expresses the will of the people and yesterday (Monday) a clear majority of the people's representatives expressed the wish to see Ene Ergma, not Arnold Ruutel, in the president's office," Postimees said in an editorial.
The ballot was the third and final chance for the Estonian parliament to elect a president. In the first round on Monday, lawmakers rejected deputy speaker of parliament Ene Ergma, ...
Ene Ergma received 65 votes in the 101-seat legislature, short of the two-thirds majority required to win the Baltic country's presidency ... An expert on the solar system with a doctorate from the Institute of Space Research in Moscow, Ergma, 62, entered Estonian politics in 2002. She now serves as the vice speaker of parliament ... .
Ene Ergma, a parliamentary deputy speaker nominated by four parties - the Reformist Party, the Socio-Democratic Party, the Union of Fatherland and the Republic Party - was unable to garner the necessary two-thirds of the 101 members of parliament in today's vote. With 65 votes, she fell three short ... .