By Plenary Sessions: Kadri Tali

The speaker takes a strong position in favor of reforming the cultural sector’s funding mechanisms, while opposing the current draft legislation, which channels funds toward redistribution and taxation under the guise of social guarantees. The political focus must be policy-driven, emphasizing the necessity of creating financial mechanisms that foster growth, innovation, and creativity, rather than reducing the sector to one dependent on aid. He/She strongly stresses that culture must not be confused with the social sector.

The most prominent issue is supporting Ukraine's defense, emphasizing a specific funding rate (0.25% of GDP). The political stance is focused on supporting this idea and exploring its international reception, which is clearly a policy- and value-based approach.

Conflicting viewpoints have emerged in the field of higher education: the EKRE faction strongly emphasizes the priority of doctoral theses written in Estonian for the sake of preserving the national language. Other commission members (Sutrop, Kivi, Lukas) actively support promoting foreign mobility through performance indicators to motivate students to study abroad. The political positions are a mix of value-based (the language issue) and policy-based (funding mechanisms) approaches.