By Months: Mario Kadastik
Total Months: 17
Fully Profiled: 17
10.2025
4 Speeches
Economic viewpoints stress the importance of regulating the market to ensure pricing transparency and prevent excessive volatility. The speaker is concerned about long-term investments when market shifts are too rapid, but acknowledges that increased liquidity can drive prices down.
09.2025
22 Speeches
Economic perspectives are cautious concerning regulation, stressing that overly stringent laws can stifle innovation. He advocates for cost efficiency, opposing mandatory insurance requirements that increase vehicle prices, particularly since the majority of users do not require the service. Furthermore, he stresses that monthly wages should reflect an individual's contribution, especially within the manufacturing sector.
06.2025
8 Speeches
Strongly advocates for increasing added value, raising productivity, and export-oriented investments, while supporting the national contribution to research and development (R&D). The goal is to achieve a competitive total electricity price in the immediate region, avoiding blanket subsidies that would make the price excessively expensive for consumers. It supports improving capital availability through EAS (Enterprise Estonia).
05.2025
27 Speeches
The entity favors investment measures over direct subsidies, allowing the state to generate revenue from those investments. It emphasizes that the electricity market is a regulated market, meaning large producers are prevented by market rules from incorporating capital expenditure into their price bids. Therefore, non-market mechanisms are necessary to guarantee investment security. Furthermore, it supports fixed connection charges to mitigate investment risks and enhance predictability, arguing that this will ultimately lower electricity prices.
04.2025
44 Speeches
The economic policy objectives focus on lowering electricity prices through renewable energy (onshore wind) to ensure a competitive edge for industries. He defends renewable energy subsidies (a maximum of 200–250 million euros over 12 years) as necessary capital expenditure coverage required by the specific nature of the marginal market. He emphasizes that oil shale electricity is objectively more expensive (approximately 130 €/MWh without the CO2 quota) and therefore cannot serve as a source of cheap electricity.
03.2025
15 Speeches
The speaker supports a market economy where the best offer wins (the lowest bid), but acknowledges that the electricity market is broken and requires intervention. He views renewable energy investments as a price-lowering force and deems investing in oil shale financially unsound. He confirms that major infrastructure investments (Estlink 3) are covered by market fees (congestion charges).
01.2025
6 Speeches
Economic views support market efficiency by promoting the integration of new generating capacity (renewable, nuclear energy) with lower fixed charges, while simultaneously ensuring that fixed costs for maintaining reserves are covered. He/She advocates for regulatory solutions that prevent double taxation and offer consumers more favorable connection terms.
12.2024
1 Speeches
Economic perspectives focus on fiscal discipline and the transparency of public sector spending. The speaker emphasizes the need to ensure that cuts result in genuine savings, not merely the reallocation of funds or undermining another fund.
11.2024
3 Speeches
The speaker strongly supports abolishing the income tax hump to reduce the tax burden on average wage earners and prevent additional euros earned from being taxed at a higher rate. Regarding regulation, he supports maintaining the domestic turnover threshold for vertical agreements at 10 million euros, even though this is lower than the EU maximum threshold.
10.2024
2 Speeches
Economic views are directed towards regulatory pragmatism, focusing on the turnover thresholds for vertical integration. The speaker emphasizes that setting the threshold (10M vs 50M) is a political decision that must take into account the size of the Estonian market, referencing a cautious approach to easing regulations.
09.2024
20 Speeches
Supports temporary aid measures aimed at accelerating the development of renewable energy and lowering electricity prices for broad socio-economic benefit. It prefers financing through excise duties and network tariffs, rejecting the use of tax increases. It sees potential in developing wind energy to bring electricity prices close to zero.
06.2024
7 Speeches
The speaker directly links scientific cooperation (CERN) to entrepreneurship and technological development, stressing that full membership opens up unrestricted procurement opportunities for Estonian companies. He views nuclear energy as a critical factor in achieving a competitive economy and energy security, also referencing the support of the Estonian Employers' Confederation.
05.2024
50 Speeches
It supports the structural shift of the economy towards high value-added exports, emphasizing the role of training engineers and international research centers (CERN, ESA) in bringing home expertise and intellectual property. It favors a market economy and minimal subsidies in the energy sector, arguing that subsidies should not be ruled out a priori for nuclear energy. It expressed interest in the automatic growth of state budget expenditures and the proportion of revenues relative to GDP growth.
04.2024
13 Speeches
The speaker directly links energy security to economic competitiveness, noting that investments have been hampered by the lack of stable prices. He advocates for the creation of a regulatory framework that would allow the market to self-regulate the deployment of nuclear energy. He emphasizes that nuclear energy can be beneficial for industrial heat production as well, not solely for electricity generation.
03.2024
31 Speeches
Economic policies advocate for ensuring fair competition (such as combating adulteration in the liquid fuels market) and creating investment certainty through a long-term vision. He/She stresses that the low marginal cost of renewable energy guarantees lower day-to-day electricity prices. Furthermore, he/she supports the circular economy and the establishment of plastic waste recycling plants.
02.2024
1 Speeches
Economic perspectives favor market-based solutions (specifically, the termination of the universal service obligation, given the sufficient availability of packages on the market) and define the state's role in ensuring security of supply through a strategic reserve established based on market offerings. The discussion also covered the financial status of the state-owned enterprise (Eesti Energia) while providing the universal service (operating at a significant loss) and the capital expenditure required for infrastructure.
01.2024
1 Speeches
The economic positions relate to the structure of public sector spending on research and development, stressing the necessity of stable, long-term core funding. This implies support for strategic national investment in science, thereby guaranteeing the sustainability of the relevant institutions.