15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, press briefing

2024-05-15 12:00

Membership: 15
Session: 3
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1-9 / 9 agenda items

Speeches: 10
AI Summaries: 10/10 (100.0%)
Duration: 14m
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The focus of the current agenda was the execution of the 2023 state budget. In the first matter, Urmas Reinsalu addressed Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on behalf of the Riigikogu, highlighting that achieving the budget goals was complicated and the financial situation in 2023 was strained. The debate centered on …

decisions 1
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No decisions were made. Today’s discussion was divided into informative and procedural matters, and no …
15:16
Speeches: 13
AI Summaries: 13/13 (100.0%)
Duration: 11m
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Riigikogu member Lauri Laats submitted a question to Prime Minister Kaja Kallas regarding companies providing vital services (ETO), which concerned amendments to the Emergency Act and the addition of food supply companies to the ETO list. Laats highlighted the concern of three major food industries (Maag Food, Valio, Tartu Mill) …

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Decisions were not made
Speeches: 13
AI Summaries: 13/13 (100.0%)
Duration: 15m
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Under the third question, Riigikogu member Helle-Moonika Helme addressed Prime Minister Kaja Kallas regarding Estonia's demographic situation, population forecast, and immigration, highlighting concerns about maintaining the constitutional order and preserving national and linguistic values. The discussion brought to light areas of danger and risk being debated in the context of …

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No decisions were made.
Speeches: 14
AI Summaries: 14/14 (100.0%)
Duration: 13m
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The main themes of the presentation include measures for economic revitalization, discussed under the leadership of Tiit Riisalo, the Minister of Economic Affairs and Information Technology, and a more detailed look at the developments within the context of the platform work directive and the resulting political debates. The first section …

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No decisions were made. The discussion was informative and deliberative in nature, focusing on clarifying …
Speeches: 10
AI Summaries: 10/10 (100.0%)
Duration: 11m
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In the first part, the Riigikogu debated the topic of bureaucracy and the government's austerity plans within the framework of the fifth question. The question was posed by Aleksei Jevgrafov to Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, and the discussion centered on the expected scale of layoffs and which groups—officials, police officers, …

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Overall, no new legal decisions were adopted. The key takeaway was that each ministry must …
Speeches: 14
AI Summaries: 14/14 (100.0%)
Duration: 14m
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Today's sixth item on the agenda addressed the situation of the Estonian state and its people, during which Riigikogu member Kert Kingo posed a sharp question to Prime Minister Kaja Kallas regarding the state of public finances and the economy. Kingo accused Kallas of destroying the Estonian economy over the …

decisions 1
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No decisions were made
Speeches: 10
AI Summaries: 10/10 (100.0%)
Duration: 8m
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The seventh question focused on the glitches and their underlying causes that emerged during the rollout of the new land cadastre information system. Mart Maastik asked who was responsible for the confusion and when the system would become fully operational, given that surveying work—and consequently the restoration of boundaries, the …

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No specific decisions were made during this discussion.
Speeches: 13
AI Summaries: 13/13 (100.0%)
Duration: 14m
Summary

Under the eighth agenda item of the Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament), MP Anastassia Kovalenko-Kõlvart posed questions to Prime Minister Kaja Kallas regarding the government's economic decisions. Kovalenko-Kõlvart sharply criticized Estonia’s economic recession—the deepest in the European Union—and highlighted rising unemployment (nearly 59,000 people). She accused the government of pursuing hectic and …

decisions 1
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No decisions were made
Speeches: 8
AI Summaries: 8/8 (100.0%)
Duration: 9m
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Today's session addressed Estonia's involvement in the war in Ukraine and the link between the direction of Estonian defense policy and the mandate of the Riigikogu (Parliament). Riigikogu member Varro Vooglaid posed a question to Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, focusing on concerns regarding the potential increase in Estonia's involvement in …

decisions 1
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No decisions were made. The Riigikogu did not adopt a new mandate for deploying the …