By Months: Aleksei Jevgrafov
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
10.2025
3 Speeches
The speaker emphasizes the necessity of fiscal discipline and saving reserves, sharply criticizing the projected large deficit. The views expressed lean towards financial responsibility and realistic budgeting, particularly concerning state institutions.
09.2025
20 Speeches
Economic perspectives focus on the lack of fiscal discipline within the Health Insurance Fund, highlighting the deepening deficit and the projected depletion of reserves by 2028. The speaker questions the financial logic behind why the Health Insurance Fund remains in the red despite growing employment and increasing tax revenues. Furthermore, improving labor market opportunities for young people is also a critical topic.
06.2025
7 Speeches
Economic viewpoints stress the need for state investments in critical infrastructure to ensure safety and fulfill long-term development promises. Furthermore, investments in the technological advancement of the energy sector (CO2 capture) are supported, aiming to preserve the option of utilizing oil shale.
05.2025
15 Speeches
Economic perspectives stress the need for stable and affordable energy, opposing amendments to the Electricity Market Act that would burden consumers with new grid connection fees. Investments in modernizing existing industry (specifically CO2 capture) are supported as a tool for ensuring economic competitiveness and employment, as this is considered significantly cheaper than major green investments.
04.2025
5 Speeches
It supports lowering the VAT on foodstuffs, believing that this will reduce the final price and improve people's purchasing power. It demands a significant state investment in labor costs, advocating for raising the minimum salary for police officers by at least 600 euros and increasing regional bonuses in peripheral areas. These positions lean toward social justice and reducing regional inequality through wage policy.
03.2025
4 Speeches
Economic views are linked to social well-being, noting that the government doesn't care how people in rural areas earn a living or ensure a basic standard of living for their children. The speaker emphasizes that legal trade is continuing and points out that closing the border would negatively impact people's livelihoods.
02.2025
15 Speeches
The speaker is strongly opposed to the government's energy policy, which favors imported fossil fuels and wastes taxpayer money (the Narva gas plant, 100 million euros). He sharply criticizes the actions of banks, which are making huge profits (e.g., SEB 406 million euros) at the expense of the people by closing the Narva office. Furthermore, he calls into question the allocation of 2.6 billion euros to support offshore wind farms, citing a lack of proper analysis.
01.2025
3 Speeches
It supports large-scale state investments, viewing them as an accelerator of economic growth. The specific stance is that the Tallinn Hospital project will provide momentum for the economy. This indicates a favorable attitude toward state-led infrastructure development.
12.2024
4 Speeches
The speaker holds strong anti-tax-increase positions, emphasizing that a high tax burden damages economic growth, reduces consumption, and discourages investment. A low-tax environment is preferred in order to foster entrepreneurship, specifically to retain investments by exporting firms and facilitate job creation.
11.2024
2 Speeches
Economic perspectives advocate for state intervention via taxation (specifically, lowering VAT) aimed at reducing consumer expenditure and supporting lower-income individuals. Emphasis is placed on the need to ensure that this economic measure provides tangible benefits to consumers, not just retailers, highlighting concerns regarding market inefficiency.
10.2024
9 Speeches
The economic views center on achieving cost savings for citizens and opposing fee increases that restrict access to specialized medical care. The speaker demands clarity regarding the state budget cuts (specifically the 10% reduction for hospitals) and the adequacy of the security tax. He questions whether the Ministry of Finance is showing solidarity with the Health Insurance Fund by laying off officials and implementing a salary freeze.
09.2024
15 Speeches
Economic perspectives center on social justice and support for vulnerable groups, criticizing the decision to freeze the poverty line despite rising inflation and increases in the minimum wage. Furthermore, there is interest in the impact of proposed legislative changes (specifically, an additional day off) on entrepreneurs and employers, prompting a request for the stance of the Estonian Employers' Confederation.
07.2024
1 Speeches
Economic perspectives advocate for funding the state budget by abandoning the income tax reform that serves the interests of the wealthy and by introducing a bank tax, in order to take 500 million euros from banks that have generated massive profits. They oppose new taxes that reduce the population's purchasing power and burden essential transport, and they demand personnel reform in the public sector.
06.2024
16 Speeches
The speaker is strongly opposed to tax hikes, arguing that they will deepen the recession and undermine families' financial stability. He advocates for implementing a bank tax (€550 million) and carrying out personnel reform in the public sector to avoid raising existing taxes and making cuts. He defends low-income families and rural residents from new burdens, such as the proposed car tax.
05.2024
23 Speeches
The economic platform focuses on progressive taxation, advocating for the implementation of a bank tax and a digital tax, and prioritizing the taxation of the wealthy and businesses over ordinary citizens. We support improving the state budget through a reduction in the number of civil servants, aimed at increasing the salaries of police officers, rescuers, and teachers, while simultaneously standing against general redundancies.
04.2024
11 Speeches
Economic views are strongly focused on social justice and stimulating the economy. It sharply opposes the government's tax increases (VAT, income tax, excise duties), arguing that they impoverish the population and serve the interests of the wealthy. It advocates for alternative revenue streams, such as a bank tax and a digital services tax, and the use of a state loan for investments aimed at supporting entrepreneurship and job creation.
03.2024
9 Speeches
Economic arguments are strongly opposed to tax hikes, arguing that they undermine public confidence and exacerbate the cost of living crisis. The speaker links high unemployment and expensive housing costs to women's fear of getting pregnant. He criticizes the government for imposing taxes aimed solely at filling the state coffers rather than solving underlying problems.
02.2024
8 Speeches
It opposes new taxes (such as the car tax) during periods of economic recession and high unemployment, arguing that they deepen socio-economic problems. It supports state intervention to revitalize the economy and ensure social protection. Furthermore, it proposes increasing state funding for the renovation of apartment buildings in order to stimulate the construction sector and reduce residents' utility costs.
01.2024
14 Speeches
The speaker advocates for affordable electricity prices and is critical of how current energy prices are formed, suggesting that exiting the electricity exchange should be considered. They express concern about the impact of the VAT increase on the service sector and the resulting rise in unemployment. Furthermore, the speaker shows interest in a progressive income tax and the potential use of cryptocurrency as a taxation instrument.