Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas expressed confidence that she has her coalition’s backing to stay in power as she shrugs off calls to step down over revelations about her husband’s business activity in Russia.
Opposition parties have pledged to push through a parliamentary confidence vote to topple her after it emerged that a trucking company partly owned by her husband, Stark Logistics AS, was making deliveries to a client in Russia even after Kallas’s calls to cut off all business ties with the country.
“Right now I am sure,” Kallas told Bloomberg News on Thursday in response to whether she would survive a confidence vote, which hasn’t been scheduled. “This has been confirmed by my coalition partners.” Kallas has been tipped as a potential successor to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg or for high office within the EU.
Kallas repeated that she was unaware of her husband’s business activities. Her spouse, Arvo Hallik, announced Friday that he would sell his 24% stake in the business — and defended Kallas’s €350,000 loan to one of his companies, which he said he paid back in installments this year.
France Dernières Nouvelles, France Actualités
Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.
Informing parents of child’s pronoun change a 'dangerous path,' former Ontario premier saysFormer Ontario Premier and Education Minister Kathleen Wynne says she is “very worried” about the government’s position of informing parents if their child changes genders or pronouns while at school.
Lire la suite »
Informing parents of child’s pronoun change a 'dangerous path,' former Ontario premier saysFormer Ontario Premier and Education Minister Kathleen Wynne says she is “very worried” about the government’s position of informing parents if their child changes genders or pronouns while at school.
Lire la suite »
Federal minister's Suncor criticism shows 'utter contempt' for Alberta, premier saysAlberta Premier Danielle Smith says Steven Guilbeault's criticism of a major oilsands company constitutes a 'provocative' verbal attack on Alberta's energy sector.
Lire la suite »
Special Report-Inside the downfall of embattled property developer China EvergrandeBy Engen Tham, Julie Zhu and Clare Jim SHANGHAI/HONG KONG - In the beginning, Hui Ka Yan followed a simple formula. Borrow to buy land. Sell homes on ...
Lire la suite »
Special Report-Inside the downfall of embattled property developer China EvergrandeBy Engen Tham, Julie Zhu and Clare Jim SHANGHAI/HONG KONG - In the beginning, Hui Ka Yan followed a simple formula. Borrow to buy land. Sell homes on ...
Lire la suite »
Premier Doug Ford supports housing minister after scathing Greenbelt reportOntario Premier Doug Ford has doubled down on his Greenbelt plan and is standing by his embattled housing minister.
Lire la suite »