Mart Laar
✓ Source-basedrisingEstonian politician and historian (born 1960)
Mart Laar is an Estonian politician and historian. He served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1992 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002. Laar is credited with having helped bring about Estonia's rapid economic development during the 1990s. He is a member of the centre-right Isamaa party.
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Laar (center) with Kärt Jänes (left) and Hannes Walter (right) at a discussion of ENE at Horisont magazine's headquarters in 1989.
Laar during an EPP summit in September 2010
Laar and Mikheil Saakashvili at the European People's Party summit in 2010
Minister of finance of Finland Jyrki Katainen, Mart Laar and the chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel in the EPP Summit of 2010In their own words 3
My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist.
Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, for 'Freakonomics Radio' podcast (24 March 2010), as published in .
The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman.
Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, for 'Freakonomics Radio' podcast (24 March 2010), when asked how he learned the fate of Friedman's
Within my first meeting when I proposed to introduce the flat tax in Estonia they looked on me as I am a little bit crazy.
Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, for 'Freakonomics Radio' podcast (24 March 2010)
Awards 7
Connected to Mart 6
Egon BahrAlso won Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Sergey SokolovAlso won Order of the White Rose of Finland
Aishwarya of NepalAlso won Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit
Michèle MorganAlso won Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit
Arata IsozakiAlso won Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Dmitriy UstinovAlso won Order of the White Rose of FinlandAbout this person
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