By Months: Mart Maastik
Total Months: 8
Fully Profiled: 8
10.2025
13 Speeches
Economic views are focused on opposing new taxes (such as the car tax), especially when they introduce additional costs (like a registration fee) and lead to the deterioration of the vehicle fleet's condition. The speaker criticizes the government's assertion that the tax has generated revenue. Furthermore, they support maintaining social benefits, specifically opposing the plan to reduce child allowances.
09.2025
17 Speeches
Economic perspectives stress fiscal discipline and austerity, strongly opposing new taxes (like the Car Tax) and the chaos in state finances. The speaker criticizes the obstruction of "reckless money injection" and demands that entrepreneurs and experts be consulted before foolish investments are made. Stability and certainty in the business environment are prioritized.
06.2025
28 Speeches
Their economic views are strongly fiscally conservative: they demand a drastic reduction in state administrative costs and oppose tax increases, which they argue would lead to an economic crash. They favor a free market economy and oppose subsidization (especially in the energy sector), emphasizing that it destroys competitiveness. He/She criticizes the growth of labor costs in the supplementary budget and supports Isamaa's proposal to cut state expenditures by 300 million euros.
05.2025
35 Speeches
Economic views are strongly market-oriented and anti-regulatory. They oppose the introduction of new taxes (e.g., the island service fee) and bureaucracy (sustainability reports), arguing that these kill competitiveness and increase consumer costs. They prioritize low and competitive electricity prices and criticize a subsidy-based energy future, which makes Estonian electricity the most expensive in Europe.
04.2025
42 Speeches
It supports the principles of the market economy and opposes state intervention in private enterprise, particularly via gender quotas, stressing the primary objective of profit generation. It warns that high energy costs and the inflated price of CO2 quotas will destroy the Estonian economy and its competitiveness. It supports a bank levy aimed at taxing windfall profits and opposes the automatic 10% annual increase in land tax.
03.2025
16 Speeches
Economic views are strongly pro-market, opposing any subsidy schemes that distort competition within the renewable energy sector. There is an emphasis on fiscal responsibility, and the wasting of state funds is criticized, while simultaneously supporting the interests of entrepreneurs by reducing bureaucracy (e.g., eliminating the mandatory requirement for sustainability reports). The preference is for cheap, dispatchable energy (oil shale, biomass) priced at market rates.
02.2025
25 Speeches
The speaker is a strong proponent of the market economy and competition, taking a firm stand against state subsidies (2.6 billion euros allocated for offshore wind farms), which, they argue, distort the market and create unfair competition. They also criticize the tax increases (VAT, fuel excise duty, and the car tax) and the cuts to family benefits, asserting that these measures worsen the competitiveness of businesses and undermine the financial well-being of families.
01.2025
18 Speeches
It opposes new taxes (such as the car tax and security tax), viewing them as fleecing the public and ineffective, particularly the car tax, which fails to adequately differentiate between CO2 emissions. It demands the sensible use of state funds and the abandonment of economically unjustified projects (such as the offshore wind farm and continued subsidization of Nordica). It also criticizes the renewable energy subsidy system for creating unhealthy competition.