Jürgen Ligi

Jürgen Ligi is an Estonian politician (Reform Party) and a current member of parliament. He has previously held the positions of the minister of foreign affairs, education, finance and defence.

Jürgen Ligi: Estonian supervision stopped the Danske case already in 2014

Jürgen Ligi / October 5, 2018

Jürgen Ligi, the current MP and the former minister of finance, writes that the Danske Bank case*, where USD235 billion was moved through the Danish bank’s Estonian branch, was already stopped by Estonian supervision in 2014 – yet, the bank did nothing. The Danske Bank scandal is an Estonian failure – not in supervision, but […]

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Jürgen Ligi: McCain could’ve said, “I’m an Estonian”

Jürgen Ligi / August 28, 2018

The Estonian member of parliament and a former foreign minister, Jürgen Ligi, writes in his obituary for the late US senator John McCain that he was the type who could have said, “I’m an Estonian”. John McCain was the American who could have come and shouted, “I’m an Estonian”. Estonia seemed to be in his

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