Europe’s Newest Finance Minister Wants to Keep His Country White
Estonia’s envoy to the Eurogroup meeting this week has some radical views about race more than finance.
A visitor looks out over buildings towards St.Olaf's church in the old town area of Tallinn.
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
He wants to keep his country racially pure and makes gestures used by white supremacists. And this week he will sit down with the rest of the euro region’s finance ministers.
The new man in charge of Estonia’s national wallet, Martin Helme, will take his seat for the first time at the heart of the continent’s mainstream policy-making at the Eurogroup meeting in Brussels on May 16. He’s a member of the anti-immigrant EKRE party that secured some of the Baltic country’s key government positions after winning 18% support in a March election.