By Plenary Sessions: Ester Karuse

The economic standpoints primarily concern public sector workforce issues and wage policy. The speaker emphasizes the need for salary and incentive measures when recruiting specialists, and notes that police officers take on extra work due to the need for additional income.

The economic views are strongly focused on social justice and progressive taxation, demanding that revenue be collected from large corporations (Google, Facebook) and banks (via a bank tax). The speaker opposes increasing the tax burden on working people (through VAT or income tax hikes) and criticizes the government for consciously increasing the deficit and growing the debt burden. Permanent sources of income are preferred over borrowed funds.

Economic views center on the effective supervision of competition law and the improvement of market functioning, based on the suspicion that the current system fails to detect a sufficient number of violations. Specific information is being demanded from the government regarding the magnitude of the budget cuts to the Competition Authority, emphasizing the necessity of fiscal transparency.