Moscow has put a prize on her head. Kaja Kallas is now wanted in Brussels.
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00:00There's a prize on her head in Russia. Now, though, she's wanted in Brussels.
00:06Estonian Prime Minister Kaia Kalas has emerged as the candidate for Europe's centrist coalition
00:11for the Union's top diplomatic post, High Representative.
00:15She has been among the most outspoken critics of the Kremlin, earning her a Russian arrest warrant.
00:20Putin's war is an act of raw military aggression against an independent and sovereign country
00:26that wants nothing more than to fulfil its own European dream.
00:31Kalas has made her mark boosting her country's defence capabilities
00:35and sending as much aid to Ukraine as possible.
00:38With 1.4% of GDP so far, Estonia is amongst the greatest military supporters in relation to population size.
00:45How Kalas will be able to handle crisis regions in other parts of the world remains to be seen,
00:51but her pragmatic and diplomatically skilled style bodes well.
00:55She faced a serious scandal a year ago when it transpired that her husband had a stake in a company
01:00that had maintained operations in Russia past the invasion.
01:03Politics runs in her family.
01:05Her father Sim Kalas was Estonia's member of the College of EU Commissioners from 2004 until 2014.
01:11Later the same year, his daughter was voted into the European Parliament.