By Months: Ester Karuse

Total Months: 13

Fully Profiled: 13

10.2025

4 Speeches

Education is a central social issue, highlighting equal opportunities and concerns regarding children's mental health (stress, self-esteem), which in turn affects exam performance. A separate point is made about the impact of the language barrier (poor proficiency in the state language) on schooling in Valga, a town where Russian is heard more frequently than Estonian. The text also addresses ensuring that compulsory education is fulfilled up to the age of 18.
09.2025

11 Speeches

It focuses heavily on social justice and the protection of vulnerable groups, especially safeguarding the elderly from digital exclusion and scam calls. In the context of education, it emphasizes ensuring equal opportunities for all young people to prevent unhealthy competition.
06.2025

13 Speeches

The text focuses on social inequality and economic hardship, calling for targeted relief measures aimed at vulnerable groups. In education, emphasis is placed on ensuring access to secondary schooling, and there is concern regarding the psychological and practical consequences of failing basic school final exams. Concerning security, worry is expressed over the personnel deficit in internal security (police forces).
05.2025

8 Speeches

The most crucial social issue is the accessibility of services for the elderly and people with mobility difficulties who do not have digital access to banking services. Furthermore, the implementation of education policy at the local level is addressed, specifically criticizing the tensions created between teachers and parents in Valga by the new regulation on school requirements.
04.2025

6 Speeches

The social sector is focusing on the inadequate treatment of people with special needs by the state, highlighting a case where an adolescent with high care requirements received a summons to the military conscription register. This emphasizes the need for improved social sensitivity and better inter-agency data exchange to ensure the right services are provided at the right time.
03.2025

1 Speeches

The primary social theme is citizenship and integration, where the speaker strongly advocates for the inclusion of individuals with undetermined citizenship into community life. This issue is addressed in the context of justice and historical factors, highlighting the motivation of these people when applying for Estonian citizenship.
02.2025

1 Speeches

The main social issue is the accessibility of direct banking services, which is intrinsically linked to social justice. The speaker emphasizes that the loss of this service leaves people who are unable or unskilled in using smartphones and computers without essential access.
01.2025

1 Speeches

Regarding social issues, emphasis is placed on democratic freedoms, such as the right to peaceful demonstrations and support for free media in the Georgian context. The release of political prisoners is demanded, along with support for civil society to restore democracy.
12.2024

2 Speeches

There is not enough data.
10.2024

2 Speeches

The speaker strongly emphasizes the protection of human rights, freedom, and human dignity, which are linked to historical repressions. The question of ensuring religious freedom is raised as a significant social issue, specifically regarding the possible dissolution of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
06.2024

5 Speeches

Domestic social issues are not discussed, but emphasis is placed on supporting European values, the rule of law, and civil society in Georgia. Within the context of education, there is support for expanding financial literacy programs to enhance the economic awareness of the population.
02.2024

2 Speeches

The text highlights the issue of the gender pay gap, demanding equal pay for equal work and noting that this principle is inherent to the European value system. It also expresses dissatisfaction with the widening of this gap. Furthermore, it stresses the necessity of an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to protect civilians during the process of eliminating Hamas.
01.2024

1 Speeches

Insufficient data.