By Months: Maris Lauri
Total Months: 13
Fully Profiled: 13
10.2025
7 Speeches
Strong support is given to innovation, research and development (R&D), and the maximum valorization of natural resources. Wage growth (convergence) is viewed as an inevitable and beneficial process that compels businesses toward continuous innovation. The accumulation of domestic capital is prioritized, and its channeling into consumption is criticized.
09.2025
19 Speeches
Supports a stable financial system, which is the lifeblood of the economy and essential for business operations. Advocates for regulatory flexibility so that regulations are not unreasonably rigid and burdensome. Views a positive credit register as a tool for reducing risks and lowering loan interest rates, thereby supporting market transparency and efficiency.
06.2025
40 Speeches
They support right-wing economic policy, emphasizing the lowering of the tax burden and the abolition of the temporary corporate profit tax (the security tax), viewing this as a positive step. They consider guaranteeing tax stability crucial and support the creation of a consumer credit register to prevent excessive borrowing and reduce the burden on the courts.
05.2025
6 Speeches
The economic platform strongly advocates for proportional taxation (flat tax) and fiscal discipline, while simultaneously supporting a tax hike to fund security. The speaker defends the improved standard of living achieved by lowering income tax and raising the tax-free threshold, emphasizing that this mitigates the impact of the tax hump. They sharply oppose a progressive income tax and stress the importance of taxing distributed profits for companies.
03.2025
2 Speeches
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01.2025
9 Speeches
The speaker advocates for fiscal responsibility and budgetary transparency, stressing that any amendments to the budget must be comprehensive, fundamental, and coherent. He defends the core principles of performance-based budgeting and opposes proposals aimed at superficial budgetary simplification, pointing out that rushed changes will inevitably lead to a far worse result.
12.2024
29 Speeches
Supports tax increases (a security levy) to cover the state budget deficit and security expenditures, while emphasizing the need to avoid "muddling" the tax system and creating uncertainty. The individual condemns covering current expenditures with loans and stresses the importance of fiscal discipline to maintain the state's credibility in the eyes of lenders. They oppose sector-specific punitive taxes (such as a banking tax), preferring instead to intensify competition.
11.2024
14 Speeches
It supports strategic financial management and criticizes past inefficiency, which was evident in the creation of 117 unrelated development plans and the high proportion of carry-over funds (13% last year). It defends the government's right to reallocate resources within certain limits to ensure efficient service delivery, for example, by shifting personnel costs to operating expenses for the outsourcing of IT services.
10.2024
8 Speeches
It supports fiscal responsibility and structural economic reforms, diagnosing the economic downturn as structural. It advocates covering defense spending through tax revenue (a security tax) and loans, while warning against an excessive debt burden. It supports taxing income from the first euro and taxing corporations, opposing ideas that would make investment more expensive or fuel inflation.
09.2024
2 Speeches
Supports enhanced regulation of the financial sector and digital operational resilience to protect the financial assets and information of clients and businesses from cyber threats. These perspectives focus on stability, risk management, and the transposition of EU requirements.
06.2024
2 Speeches
His economic views are strongly fiscally conservative, emphasizing the need to live within one's means and avoid unfunded spending. He supports taking out loans only in specific situations, primarily for investments that will pay for themselves in the future, and calls for savings in current expenditures and subsidies. He also supports robust, but not overly rigid, regulation of the financial system to ensure its resilience.
05.2024
12 Speeches
It strongly supports fiscal discipline, the rapid reduction of the budget deficit, and limiting expenditure growth (spending cap). It views the streamlining of state finances as essential for reducing economic uncertainty and lowering interest rates for businesses. It supports revenue measures (e.g., motor vehicle tax, property taxation) and the support of research and development (R&D), especially in translating knowledge into entrepreneurship during the "valley of death." It demands a stable legal environment and the assurance of fair competition.
04.2024
1 Speeches
Economic perspectives favor tighter regulation and oversight of the financial sector, particularly within the crypto services domain, to guarantee security and trustworthiness. It is acknowledged that stricter requirements may cause the market to shrink, but this is deemed necessary because previous lax regulation attracted unsubstantiated or fraudulent actors.