By Months: Leo Kunnas
Total Months: 8
Fully Profiled: 8
11.2025
6 Speeches
No data available
10.2025
1 Speeches
Insufficient data
09.2025
11 Speeches
The speaker expresses strong concern regarding the sustainability of defense expenditures (5.4% of GDP) if they are financed by loans and the money subsequently flows out of the country. He/She advocates for economic nationalism in the defense industry, emphasizing that domestic production, even if the nominal price is higher, is necessary to ensure tax revenue and employment. He/She estimates that the current policy has cost Estonia approximately 1% of its GDP annually.
06.2025
4 Speeches
Insufficient information.
05.2025
2 Speeches
Economic views are critical of the government's economic management, emphasizing the rapid decline in productivity and competitiveness. The speaker opposes tax increases and sharply criticizes the justification of these hikes by external forces, suggesting that a stable or decreasing tax policy is possible, as demonstrated by Latvia and Finland.
03.2025
11 Speeches
Strongly supports raising the benefits and allowances for conscripts and reservists to restore the purchasing power lost to inflation (by roughly one third). It is emphasized that this increase must happen quickly, with funding secured either from the Government of the Republic's reserve fund or via budget reallocations.
02.2025
1 Speeches
Economic perspectives favor shifting fiscal discipline towards security, supporting a sharp increase in defense spending to 4–4.5% of GDP. At the same time, the continuation of subsidized energy production and the CO2 quota system is being questioned, citing their high cost in light of the current security situation.
01.2025
10 Speeches
Insufficient data. The only financial issue concerns the funding of national defense, emphasizing the need for 5 billion euros over the next decade and referring to the European Union's stability criteria.