Socialist MEP new president in Estonia

Socialist MEP Toomas Hendrik Ilves has been elected president of Estonia, after narrowly ousting the incumbent Arnold Ruutel.

Following the results on Saturday (23 September), Mr Ilves told reporters in Tallinn that he wishes to take Estonia "more to the centre of Europe."

"Estonia should be among the idea generators in Europe," he said according to Associated Press.

Mr Ilves, 52, was born in Sweden to parents who had escaped the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1944 and late...