Following the European elections on 6-9 June, ALDE Party will be represented by a new group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) who will lead the fight for liberal values in the next five years.

In this episode of our series, we shine a spotlight on Eesti Reformierakond from Estonia, led by Kaja Kallas.

Urmas Paet

Field of expertise: Foreign Affairs and Defence

Urmas Paet entered politics by joining Reformierakond as a professional advisor. He served as the Deputy Mayor of Nõmme (a district of Tallinn) from 1999 to 2003, when he became Estonian Minister of Culture. In 2005, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs

Paet has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2014 European elections, first serving on the Committee on Budgets, Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Security and Defence. In 2024, he was re-elected as MEP as Reformierakond’s lead candidate for the European elections.

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