By Months: Kalev Stoicescu
Total Months: 15
Fully Profiled: 15
10.2025
2 Speeches
The political stance focuses on balancing comprehensive national defense and strengthening non-military capabilities. The speaker expresses deep concern regarding the underfunding of civil protection and urgently calls for extraordinary additional investments, comparable to the hundreds of millions of euros allocated to military defense. The position is clearly policy-driven and results-oriented, emphasizing the priority of protecting the populace.
09.2025
17 Speeches
Strong and unwavering support for comprehensive national defense and security, emphasizing urgency and societal unity to deter Russian aggression. The political stance is strongly value-based, demanding strict financial discipline alongside enormous defense expenditures (5% of GDP) and the regularization of accounting for equipment acquired with taxpayer funds. The main objective is the actual building up of comprehensive national defense, not merely discussing it.
06.2025
4 Speeches
The political focus is heavily directed toward national defense and security, supporting the use of all means necessary to repel aggression, including withdrawing from the convention to allow the use of anti-personnel landmines. Another pressing issue is the elimination of Kremlin and FSB influence exerted through the subordination structure of the Estonian Orthodox Church, stressing sovereignty and national loyalty. The speaker frames their stance primarily through the lens of security threats and value-based defense, emphasizing the necessity of defending Estonia "from the very first centimeter."
05.2025
4 Speeches
The political position is strongly focused on enhancing the flexibility of national defense and security, while urgently advocating for withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention. This stance is driven by Russia's aggression in Ukraine and the necessity to defend Estonia by any means possible, underscoring the priority of responding to security threats. The decision is framed clearly around core values (protecting the people and the state) and political necessity (granting the Defense Forces freedom in selecting weapon systems).
04.2025
1 Speeches
The political focus centers on the legal boundaries for implementing property taxes (including the car tax) and ensuring the protection of assets essential for citizens' livelihoods. The speaker acknowledges the state's right to levy property taxes but stresses that this must not force taxpayers to relinquish their home or vehicle. The overall stance is inquisitive, seeking to strike a balance between the state's fiscal demands and the individual's responsibility.
03.2025
2 Speeches
In his political activities, the speaker strongly emphasizes national security and foreign policy, firmly supporting the enhanced implementation of anti-Russia sanctions, which he considers justified and necessary measures against the aggressor. Domestically, he supports a fair increase in benefits for reservists and conscripts due to the rising cost of living, while simultaneously stressing the need to respect governmental authority and maintain fiscal prudence. His views are primarily policy- and value-driven, focusing on the nation's defense capabilities and international responsibilities.
02.2025
8 Speeches
The political stance is strongly focused on national security, foreign policy, and democratic values. The most crucial issues are deterring Russian aggression, supporting Ukraine, and defending Estonia's independence and sovereignty within the framework of NATO and the EU. The policy is strongly value-based, emphasizing the importance of the constitution and liberal democracy, and warning against a recurrence of the 1939 scenario.
01.2025
9 Speeches
Politically, the speaker positions himself as a supporter of the governing coalition, defending the existing national defense funding strategy (1.6 billion euros over seven years). He opposes the opposition's attempt to accelerate this plan to four years, deeming it premature and unrealistic. He emphasizes the importance of comprehensive national defense (including civil protection) and supports aggressive deterrence, which involves a readiness to use any means necessary for self-defense, specifically referencing the issue of anti-personnel mines. Furthermore, he takes a strong values-based stand against the Georgian government's human rights violations, citing OSCE principles.
12.2024
8 Speeches
The political focus is heavily concentrated on strengthening national defense and meeting international commitments, emphasizing solidarity and collective defense. The politician firmly backs the implementation of a security tax as a temporary measure to fund major defense investments. He sharply criticizes those who vote against Estonia’s collective defense, viewing it as an action detrimental to the survival of the state.
11.2024
2 Speeches
The political focus is on international security and collective defense. The speaker strongly supports the contribution of Estonian defense forces personnel to both European Union (EUNAVFOR ASPIDES) and NATO (ARF and SNF) operations, directly linking NATO participation to Estonian security. These positions are policy-based, emphasizing the guarantee of freedom of navigation and ensuring response capability. Regarding the EUNAVFOR ASPIDES operation, its strictly defensive nature is highlighted.
10.2024
3 Speeches
The political focus is heavily aimed at strengthening national defense and justifying high defense spending (over 3% of GDP), emphasizing the necessity of deterring Russia. Furthermore, the speaker takes a strong value-based stance in condemning Russian aggression and historical crimes (the genocide of the Crimean Tatars). A targeted and temporary security tax is supported to finance these defense expenditures. The positions articulated are primarily value- and policy-based.
09.2024
5 Speeches
The political focus centers on the comprehensive strengthening of national defense, highlighting the critical importance of both its military and civil components. The speaker steadfastly supports defense spending (a minimum of 3% of GDP plus an extraordinary investment) and adopts a strict, security-driven stance against Russian influence operations, specifically addressing the voting rights of citizens from aggressor states. These positions are deeply rooted in values, prioritizing the safeguarding of the nation's independence and security.
05.2024
5 Speeches
The political position focuses strongly on halting Russian aggression through international sanctions and the utilization of frozen assets, highlighting Estonia’s role as a trailblazer. Domestically, it sharply criticizes previous economic decisions (2019, 2022) as ultra-populist and misguided. It also calls on major European powers to make faster investments in the defense industry, linking this directly to the defense capabilities of both Europe and Estonia. The position is fundamentally value- and policy-based, emphasizing responsibility and deterrence.
03.2024
1 Speeches
The political focus is heavily concentrated on security and foreign policy concerning Russia. The speaker firmly supports denouncing the legal assistance treaty, citing political and moral considerations as justification. Furthermore, he advocates for economic self-regulation, urging a complete halt to all economic activity with Russia in order to curb the operations of Putin's war machine.
02.2024
3 Speeches
The political position is strongly value-driven, emphasizing the vital importance of ensuring Estonian security through NATO and the European Union. The speaker vigorously supports providing aid to Ukraine and demands that Russia be held accountable for war crimes and economic damages. Furthermore, they advocate for the ambitious goal of strengthening Estonia's Nordic-Baltic identity and seeking membership in the Nordic Council.