By Plenary Sessions: Anti Poolamets
Total Sessions: 7
Fully Profiled: 7
2024-11-21
15th Estonian Parliament, 4th sitting, plenary session
The focus is on Estonia's national economic problems and the plans for extracting mineral resources (phosphorite, rare earth metals), as well as the decline of rural life and the transformation of pristine natural landscapes into industrial ones. He/she also criticizes the Rail Baltic project as unnecessary yet resource-intensive. Internationally, reference is made to the withdrawal of the USA and Argentina from the Paris Climate Agreement.
2024-11-20
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary sitting
The focus is clearly at the national level (the security and constitution of the Republic of Estonia) and the international level, addressing wide-ranging security threats and mass immigration scenarios. References are made to Russia, St. Petersburg, Europe, the Finnish border, and Latvia, but there is no focus on specific local or regional problems within Estonia.
2024-11-20
15th Estonian Parliament, 4th sitting, press briefing.
The focus is exclusively on national issues, such as the lack of transparency in the state budget, nationwide inflation, and the funding of left-wing extremist non-profit organizations. Specific regional or local problems are not mentioned.
2024-11-07
15th Parliament, 4th sitting, plenary session
The focus is on international and cross-border infrastructure projects, particularly Rail Baltic, which connects the Baltic states and Poland. Regional connectivity issues are also mentioned, citing as an example the difficulties in launching the Tartu–Riga train service. Reference is also made to domestic political scandals in Latvia related to Rail Baltic.
2024-11-06
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary sitting
The focus is strongly international, concentrating on distant conflict zones such as Syria, Mozambique, Mali, and Iraq, and stressing that Estonia's knowledge of these regions is limited. The UN mission in Lebanon and the Israeli region is also addressed separately. The speaker emphasizes that these are "distant lands."
2024-11-05
Fifteenth Riigikogu, fourth session, plenary session
The focus is primarily on national issues (the misappropriation of Estonian mineral resources, Rail Baltic, and livelihood/subsistence) and international relations (EU federalization, military aid to Ukraine). Congolese child labor is also indirectly mentioned in the context of battery technologies, but local or regional problems are absent.
2024-11-04
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary sitting
The focus is heavily regional, highlighting the issues facing rural areas and regions located outside the capital. Specific mention is made of Rakvere (high cocaine usage), Ida-Virumaa, and Jõhvi (threat of courthouse closure), as well as areas generally suffering from market failure. The speaker demands an expansion of the state's presence and the relocation of jobs outside of Tallinn.