OREANDA-NEWS. December 05, 2013. The prime ministers of Estonia and Finland, Andrus Ansip and Jyrki Katainen, will meet later this month to discuss Finland's plans to adopt the X-Road system, the "backbone" data exchange layer that connects the different databases used by Estonia's various e-services.

It was reported in September that Finnish officials were planning to start using the X-Road system, which was introduced in Estonia in 2001 and uses an open source software.

Estonian officials hope that getting Finland on board will open a window for promoting e-services elsewhere in the EU.