By Months: Andres Metsoja
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
10.2025
11 Speeches
It supports fiscal responsibility, requiring a plan to eliminate the deficit and reduce reliance on state subsidies. It advocates for investments in industry, defense industry parks, and renewable energy. It is critical of the current fiscal policy, which deprives local municipalities of revenue, emphasizing that "you probably never get rich through redistribution."
09.2025
16 Speeches
The economic platform strongly advocates for entrepreneurial freedom, standing in opposition to state intervention and tax hikes, such as the proposed car tax. It criticizes environmental regulations that force Estonian producers (specifically the peat and forestry sectors) out of competition, instead favoring a self-regulating market and minimal subsidies. Furthermore, the platform opposes retroactive financial liabilities.
06.2025
11 Speeches
Supports the principle of cost-saving and efficiency in infrastructure projects (such as the joint design of bridges). It is critical of transferring costs to consumers (maritime fees) and opposes continuous subsidization. It views renewable energy as an input stimulus for the economy, supporting direct energy contracts and the reduction of grid fees in local areas of impact.
05.2025
16 Speeches
The speaker is a strong proponent of economic activity, emphasizing the necessity of a functioning economic environment for effective tax collection. He criticizes regulations that restrict business (such as the ban on forestry in Natura areas) without a proper impact assessment, viewing this as direct damage to state revenues. He supports reducing the administrative and financial burden on citizens (for example, abolishing mandatory insurance for trailers).
04.2025
14 Speeches
The speaker advocates stimulating the economy through government cuts rather than implementing new taxes. He emphasizes the importance of establishing a functioning economy and creating wealth before focusing on redistribution. He supports using borrowed funds for strategic investments but is critical of subsidizing business risks (for example, in the context of intermittent energy).
03.2025
7 Speeches
Economically, he supports prioritizing infrastructure investments to strengthen the economy and ensure defense capability. He criticizes the energy system as being unreasonable from society's perspective and demands affordability. He opposes regulations that increase costs for businesses and households (e.g., the price increase for drilled wells).
02.2025
10 Speeches
Not enough data
01.2025
11 Speeches
The speaker supports protecting the economic activities of rural areas (agriculture and livestock farming) against over-regulation. He criticizes distortions in the communications market, high prices, and the suppression of free competition, calling for infrastructure sharing. He also questions certain subsidies, such as the exemption of ash from the Iru waste-to-energy plant from the landfill fee.
12.2024
16 Speeches
The speaker is fiscally conservative, calling for transparency in the state budget and criticizing unexpected budget surpluses. They are strongly opposed to taxes that stifle business activity and exacerbate inequality (MVT). Furthermore, they advocate for a stable legal framework that would protect private sector investments (specifically mining and the circular economy industry) and guarantee a level playing field for all market participants.
11.2024
31 Speeches
The speaker is strongly opposed to tax hikes, especially those that impact the economic environment (the motor vehicle tax). He demands serious budget cuts and the "slimming down" of the state apparatus, rather than replacing necessary cuts with tax increases. He emphasizes that the nation's well-being (defense capabilities, pensions) depends on maintaining the competitiveness of the economic environment and adding value to resources (forests, oil shale).
10.2024
8 Speeches
The economic outlook is heavily focused on maintaining competitiveness and supporting export volumes, while simultaneously opposing high input prices (electricity, fuel) and excise duties that diminish the capacity of businesses. It warns that the current tax environment is forcing companies to move production out of Estonia. Furthermore, it supports earmarking excise revenue for road construction and criticizes the government’s policy of budget redistribution, arguing that it fails to create new wealth.
09.2024
12 Speeches
The speaker expressed concern regarding the state of the national budget and criticized costly investments—such as the 80 million euros allocated for relocating a college—at a time when the budget is strained. He advocates for stimulating the economy via regional investments and key industries (the defense industry, an ethanol plant). Furthermore, he is critical of the proposed car tax and environmental fee, fearing that these measures will not solve the issue of scrapped vehicles, but will instead breed resentment and impede recycling efforts.
07.2024
9 Speeches
The speaker is critical of the tax hikes, arguing that they are unaffordable during this difficult economic period and undermine competitiveness. He advocates for stability and economic growth to generate additional revenue for the state budget, rather than taking money out of the economy. He stresses that subsidies must be targeted and criticizes attempts to balance the state budget that fail to account for regional equality.
06.2024
7 Speeches
The speaker is strongly opposed to tax hikes, arguing that they drive up the prices of goods and food and hurt the competitiveness of economic sectors, particularly agriculture and forestry. He emphasizes the protection of property rights as the foundation of the Estonian state and criticizes state bureaucracy, which imposes additional costs on owners.
05.2024
5 Speeches
Strongly supports economic growth and ensuring national competitiveness so that businesses can increase their wealth. It opposes inefficient income taxes (such as the 'sweetener tax') and supports reducing bureaucracy in procedures that impede the development of the energy sector. It demands that the state compensate local governments for lost land tax revenue derived from protected areas.
04.2024
9 Speeches
Our economic views are geared toward supporting small businesses and reducing regulations, particularly in the seasonal work sector, where the new work and rest time requirements are "harassing and killing." We oppose new taxes (such as the proposed car tax) that harm the rural economy and restrict freedom of movement. Furthermore, we stress that income must be generated through enterprise, not through subsidies.
03.2024
4 Speeches
Insufficient data.
02.2024
4 Speeches
Economic views lean toward entrepreneurship, stressing the impact of input prices and the necessity of cutting state spending ("the state must tighten its belt"). The speaker is vehemently opposed to new taxes (such as the car tax), viewing them as measures that reduce purchasing power and tax people's way of life, and demands fiscal discipline.
01.2024
14 Speeches
The speaker supports improving the economy's competitiveness, for instance, by making per diem allowances income tax-free. He/She calls for a clear industrial policy, the promotion of investments, and halting the outflow of capital. He/She emphasizes the importance of adding value to national resources (oil shale, forest, phosphorite) through innovation.