Kaja Kallas

Prime Minister of Estonia

Kaja Kallas has been the Prime Minister of Estonia since January 2021. She has been the leader of the Reform Party since 2018 and a Member of Parliament from 2019 to 2021 and previously from 2011 to 2014. Between the two terms at the Estonian Parliament, from 2014 to 2018, Prime Minister Kallas served as a Member of the European Parliament (representing the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe), where her primary focus was on the Digital Single Market strategy and energy and consumer policies. Before entering politics, she was an attorney-at-law, specialising in European and Estonian competition law, and a partner in two law firms. Prime Minister Kallas has been awarded the CEPA Transatlantic Leadership Award, the 2022 Grotius Prize, the Hayek International Prize, the European Prize for Political Culture, the Lord Byron International Prize, the Prix de l’Europe awarded by L’Express, and the Marion Dönhoff Prize.

Subjects:

Climate, COVID-19, Economy, Energy, Europe, Future, Geopolitics, Globalisation, Migration, NATO, Russia, Transatlantic relations, Ukraine

Updated: August 13, 2021

Agenda

Keeping Up Support to Ukraine – Defining as Long as It Takes?

LMC 2024: Let Us Not Despair, But Act

Brave New World – Building a Stronger Europe?

LMC 2024: Let Us Not Despair, But Act

Incipit Vita Nova – So Begins New Life

LMC 2023

Climate, Economy, Energy, Europe, Geopolitics, Russia

Beds Are Burning: Energy, Climate, and Geopolitics

LMC 2022

Europe, Future, NATO, Russia, Ukraine

Tempus Fugit – Time Flees

LMC 2022

Climate, COVID-19, Globalisation, Migration, Transatlantic relations

Nam Tua res Agitur, Paries cum Proximus Ardet (Horace): My Neighbour’s Problem Today – Mine Tomorrow

LMC 2021

In the news

Europe struggles to boost defense spending as specter of Trump looms

National Journal, May 28, 2024

‘Connect the dots of hybrid operations and prepare for worse’

Militaire Spectator, May 28, 2024

Länsi ei osaa nyt päättää, tehdäänkö Ukrainan voiton eteen kaikki tarvittava vai minimi: "Jos kulutussota jatkuu nykyisenä, Ukraina häviää sen"

MTV (STT), May 26, 2024

Kallas: Putin ville stoppa att jag blev Natochef

Svenska Dagbladet, May 26, 2024

Det är vår i Europa och kanonerna blommar

Aftonbladet, May 22, 2024

L'Estonie fait face à une hausse des attaques hybrides russes

Euronews, May 22, 2024

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