By Years: Yoko Alender
Total Years: 2
Fully Profiled: 2
2025
35 Speeches
It supports economically sound solutions and market-based optimization, emphasizing that renewable energy is the cheapest method of generation. It considers ensuring energy security at an affordable price crucial, noting that the cost of maintaining a reserve is economically justified as it prevents peak prices from tripling. Furthermore, it supports the circular economy as a means of preventing resource loss and stresses the need to create certainty for businesses to invest in recycling capabilities.
2024
11 Speeches
Economic policies are heavily focused on increasing productivity, attracting new industries, and adding value to local resources, viewing clean energy as essential for competitiveness and prosperity. It supports higher taxation for high-income earners, but questions the ambition of setting the minimum wage threshold so low (at 2,000 euros). It emphasizes the GDP savings that can be achieved through e-governance.