By Months: Tõnis Lukas
Total Months: 8
Fully Profiled: 8
10.2025
1 Speeches
Economic perspectives advocate for increased public sector spending on education, focusing particularly on raising teachers' salaries and increasing the proportion allocated to the differentiation fund. The speaker criticizes the government's failure to demonstrate long-term fiscal discipline when budgeting for these essential expenditures within the State Budget Strategy.
09.2025
10 Speeches
Economic perspectives focus on labor market regulation, demanding stricter language proficiency requirements in the service sector and in new forms of employment (platform work, temporary agency labor). It is emphasized that the absence of language requirements fosters the understanding that the Estonian language is unnecessary.
06.2025
47 Speeches
Economic viewpoints center on the state providing financial guarantees (minimum teacher salaries, basic funding for science) and systematic infrastructure planning aimed at preventing waste. Regarding the labor market, the preferred solution for the labor shortage is improving the employment of people of retirement age, while maintaining skepticism toward large-scale immigration.
05.2025
11 Speeches
The speaker is firmly opposed to importing cheap labor from third countries, arguing that it drives down wages and forces local people to emigrate. He stresses that for the economy to function properly, it is vital to ensure adequate birth rates, and the labor market must be secured by relying on our own people. He also criticizes the unequal distribution of investments and government institutions, which concentrates taxpayer-created jobs in Tallinn.
04.2025
4 Speeches
Strongly advocates for market economy principles and opposes state subsidies in economic sectors where investments should be recovered directly from consumers. Supports increasing tax incentives for philanthropy and extending benefits to cover donations made to the Cultural Endowment (Kultuurkapital), in order to attract private funding into culture and sports.
03.2025
20 Speeches
The economic platform focuses on protecting domestic labor and wage levels. They are strongly opposed to increasing the quota for foreign workers, arguing that it would drive down wages. They support the current requirement that foreign specialists must be paid at least 1.5 times the average salary, and they criticize employers who are unwilling to pay market-rate wages. Furthermore, they criticize routine budget cuts that affect priority social sectors.
02.2025
16 Speeches
He/She strongly supports increasing defense spending and rapidly developing the defense industry, viewing this as an opportunity to manufacture both for the domestic market and for export. He/She is skeptical of the savings figures cited for the education reform (300,000 euros), noting that the calculations show that such a large sum will not actually materialize. He/She stresses the necessity of guaranteeing adequate salaries and social benefits for Defense Forces specialists.
01.2025
5 Speeches
Economic viewpoints center on national defense expenditures, strongly advocating for their increase to the 5% GDP level to ensure the country's defense capability. Concern is expressed that new legislation could be used to import cheap labor, which suggests a cautious attitude regarding the economic motives of migration.