By Months: Urmas Kruuse
Total Months: 10
Fully Profiled: 10
12.2024
2 Speeches
Economic perspectives support worker protection via social conditionality, but they stress that this does not constitute an additional burden for businesses, as the requirements overlap with existing occupational safety supervision. The speaker aims to alleviate fears about regulation by assuring that penalization is not the objective. He/She supports regulations that are consistent with the positions held by the Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce.
11.2024
7 Speeches
Economically, he/she supports competitiveness-based subsidies in agriculture and opposes making them more social, arguing that this would endanger strong businesses. In the climate debate, he/she stresses that the cost of inaction will be manifold higher in the future, pointing to the necessity of investing now to prevent greater future economic losses.
10.2024
7 Speeches
The speaker is a strong proponent of the market economy and the financing of entrepreneurship, opposing state intervention through the taxation of bank profits. He emphasizes that banks already contribute via advance income tax, and additional taxation would reduce consumption and overall economic contribution. He warns that excessive taxation will lead to costs being passed back to clients and will harm competitiveness.
09.2024
9 Speeches
Economically, the speaker supports targeted subsidies and incentives (such as a minimum preferential rate for special diesel for farmers) aimed at strengthening competitiveness. He/She is skeptical of lowering the VAT on foodstuffs, questioning its real impact on prices and market competition. Furthermore, he/she advocates for risk-based controls on businesses to cut down on bureaucracy.
06.2024
2 Speeches
Economic perspectives emphasize market transparency and the necessity of protecting consumers from unwarranted price hikes resulting from the exploitation of crises. There is also strong skepticism regarding cryptocurrencies, which are viewed as a potential means of concealing income and generating illicit profits.
05.2024
6 Speeches
Economic viewpoints focus on the details of financial regulation and consumer protection, specifically inquiring about the procedures for closing and potentially reopening bank current accounts. The primary concern is whether a decision made by one bank restricts a client's ability to use services at other banks.
04.2024
13 Speeches
Economic perspectives emphasize the need for strategic state investment in critical areas, such as veterinary services, to guarantee food security. He/She supports saving taxpayer money by implementing technical solutions (like utilizing foreign partner laboratories) and points out the challenging economic state of the agricultural sector, which remains unprofitable even with subsidies.
03.2024
6 Speeches
Supports fiscal discipline and is concerned about the size of the state budget deficit, viewing the 147 million deficit as significant. In energy policy, it prioritizes strategic security and supply reliability, even if this conflicts with the negative climate perception associated with gas. It views investing in education as a potential source of long-term savings in healthcare expenditure.
02.2024
13 Speeches
The speaker supports entrepreneurship and enhancing export capability, acknowledging that the loss of cheap Russian raw materials has reduced competitiveness. They defend investment subsidies (specifically solar parks) and emphasize that businesses must comply with environmental footprint requirements to remain viable in global supply chains. The speaker also analyzes export barriers, noting that VAT is not the primary concern for exporters.
01.2024
5 Speeches
Economic perspectives focus on the efficiency of public sector spending and the economic motivation for reforms. It is noted that Estonia heavily funds education (6% of GDP), but questions are being raised as to whether this funding is correctly directed to motivate local governments to optimize the network.