By Months: Mario Kadastik
Total Months: 10
Fully Profiled: 10
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.