Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Mart Laar" produced 16 items.
| 1. Natural-born partisan | July 20, 2011 |
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Meet Mart Laar: a young pretender turned old defender When Yegor Gaidar, the first post-Soviet prime minister of Russia, who was architect of the country's misunderstood... |
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| 2. Ansip poised to hang on to power | February 24, 2011 |
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Ruling coalition set to win with narrow margin. Much has changed in Estonia over the past four years, but the election on 6 March mirrors its predecessor: another... |
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| 3. Guides out of debt | July 15, 2010 |
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The performance of Sweden and Estonia during the crisis demonstrates the wisdom of controlling public spending. The Greek drama has illustrated how the first wave of the... |
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| 4. Eastern Europe should present its modern face to the world | March 11, 2010 |
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Modern visitors find interesting, beautiful new things more attractive than sad, beautiful old ones. Imagine that you are attending a conference (call it Agenda 2010) in the... | |
| 5. Still waiting for the genuine governments-in-waiting | April 23, 2009 |
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Mediocrity flourishes in central and eastern European governments and is unlikely to be supplanted by real talent. Political freedom means that rulers tremble when voters... | |
| 6. Why the Nord Stream gas pipeline is offshore | October 9, 2008 |
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The pipeline bypassed EU states en route to Germany for technical, financial and environmental reasons. The comment article by Mart Laar, the former prime minister of... |
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| 7. The West must do more than just gaze towards Russia | October 9, 2008 |
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The EU and NATO need to re-assess how to deal with Russian subversion of Western interests. NATO expansion in the Caucasus has been thwarted and the humiliation of the... | |
| 8. Mild mobster | October 4, 2007 |
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One week after the April riots in Tallinn, while Estonia's embassy in Moscow was surrounded by an irate mob of pro-Kremlin youth groups and Estonian websites, both government... | |
| 9. Jealous Ansip would be better off working with Laar | April 12, 2007 |
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Estonia's new government may be easily the least bad in eastern Europe. But that's a modest achievement, a bit like conquering Big Egg Mountain, at all of 318 metres, (1,043... | |
| 10. A big bang from a small eastern country | April 13, 2006 |
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The economic history of Estonia might sound arcane. But when the speaker is Mart Laar, twice prime minister and the father of its unique blend of free-market capitalism and... | |
| 11. A piece of advice: Baltic folk don't need our advice | September 22, 2005 |
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When an Estonian official once asked me about a suitable mission statement or motto for his country. I suggested, only half-jokingly, "We told you so". Estonian smugness is... | |
| 12. Election fever on the march across Europe as June looms | February 5, 2004 |
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POLITICAL parties across the EU are buzzing with election fever as they finalize their lists of candidates for the historic European elections of 10-13 June – the first to... | |
| 13. Estonia stumbles on accession road | February 7, 2002 |
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Despite falling behind other candidate countries in terms of the number of chapters it has closed, Estonia is still a serious contender for joining the EU, argues Dick... | |
| 14. NEWS IN BRIEF | January 10, 2002 |
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EUROPEAN Justice Commissioner António Vitorino has opted to remain in Brussels, despite coming under fierce pressure to lead Portugal's Socialists in the forthcoming... | |
| 15. Party 'begging' Vitorino to come home as Gutteres goes | December 20, 2001 |
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EU commissioner António Vitorino is coming under intense pressure from members of Portugal's ruling Socialists to replace António Gutteres as party leader. The... | |
| 16. Old guard gets a wake-up call from the new kids on the bloc | June 21, 2001 |
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FRESH faces are not an unusual sight at EU summits. Among the long-serving stalwarts there is often a newly-elected president or couple of new prime ministers. At... | |
