TodayPress TV<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n\u201cIt is with deep sadness that I have to announce that my beloved father passed away tonight,\u201d the diplomat wrote.<\/p>\n
The former politician died at the age of 77 on the night of August 21\u201322.<\/p>\n
During the Soviet era, Siim Kallas was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1972 to 1990 and headed the Estonian branch of the USSR Savings Bank.<\/p>\n
After Estonia regained political independence, Kallas served as Governor of the country\u2019s central bank. In 1994, he founded the local Reform Party.<\/p>\n
Siim Kallas served as Prime Minister of Estonia from 2002 to 2003 and as Vice-President of the European Commission from 2004 to 2014, serving in both European Commissions headed by Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso.<\/p>\n
His daughter, Kaja Kallas, has served as the European Union\u2019s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy since December 1, 2024.<\/p>\n
Giymat Mahir<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Siim Kallas, former Prime Minister of Estonia, former Vice-President of the European Commission and former head of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[140],"tags":[6679,412,939,88402,442,8372,88403],"class_list":["post-197856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kaja-kallas","tag-estonia","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-giymat-mahir","tag-kaja-kallas","tag-siim-kallas","tag-todaypress-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117139090077382756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}