By Months: Peeter Tali

Total Months: 18

Fully Profiled: 18

10.2025

4 Speeches

Economic viewpoints emphasize efficiency and cost savings, supporting the use of technology as a replacement for human labor. This is driven by the necessity of ensuring security at the lowest possible cost, considering Estonia's small population.
09.2025

11 Speeches

It supports a liberal right-wing economic view that emphasizes economic growth and increasing prosperity, but agrees to the necessary loan burden to ensure security. It supports tax changes that would leave 780 million euros in the economy and increase the take-home pay of lower-income and average-wage workers. Cuts to the operational costs of ministries totaling 112 million euros are also supported.
06.2025

10 Speeches

Economic policy positions center on increasing defense spending and developing the national defense industry. Specifically, emphasis is placed on the necessity of acquiring the necessary know-how for the production of infantry mines and establishing manufacturing capabilities in Estonia to ensure self-sufficient supply.
05.2025

4 Speeches

Economic views emphasize investments in education, science, and research and development, requiring at least 1% of GDP for R&D funding. It considers an educated workforce and technological acumen (the Tech Leap) as the foundation for prosperity and national defense, since robots will sooner or later take over simple jobs requiring only basic education. It supports prioritizing funding for culture, education, and national defense compared to the European average.
04.2025

1 Speeches

No economic views are provided, apart from an indirect reference to the security situation's impact on financial markets. It is mentioned that a navy press release regarding the mining of the Gulf of Finland would be immediately visible on the stock markets, indicating an awareness of the connections between security and economic stability.
03.2025

3 Speeches

Economic perspectives focus on the role of innovation and technology in national defense. The necessity of involving Estonian engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs is emphasized, in order to channel their ingenuity into the defense of the Estonian state.
02.2025

5 Speeches

Not enough data
01.2025

1 Speeches

There is not enough data.
12.2024

7 Speeches

It supports putting the nation's finances in order, moving toward a balanced budget, although it believes that cuts to bureaucracy are insufficient. It strongly favors implementing a security tax, framed as a solidarity tax, to fund extensive defense spending (5.6 billion euros over four years plus an additional 1.6 billion). It stresses that security is a prerequisite for economic competitiveness and growth.
11.2024

15 Speeches

The economic platform focuses on strengthening the European single market and boosting competitiveness by cutting red tape. He/She supports protecting European industry, for example, by imposing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, in order to combat unfair competition and reduce dependence on third countries. He/She considers EU membership the foundation for Estonia’s economic growth and foreign investment.
10.2024

2 Speeches

No data available
09.2024

9 Speeches

He/She advocates for a robust economic policy against the aggressor, demanding a complete trade embargo on Russia and Belarus, and the abandonment of Russian LNG use. He/She emphasizes that Russian business corrupts businessmen, officials, and politicians. He/She supports reducing bureaucracy to make the implementation of sanctions more effective and faster.
06.2024

1 Speeches

The economic outlook is pragmatic: while the significant need for national defense spending is acknowledged, there is no support for tax hikes or budget cuts. The speaker is considering relaxing fiscal discipline, suggesting that defense expenditures be excluded when measuring budget balance to ensure essential investments are made.
05.2024

3 Speeches

Supports significant defense spending, citing the necessity of acquiring €1.6 billion worth of ammunition. It urgently demands that these funds be channeled into Estonian production, rather than going abroad (to France, Spain, or Germany), in order to develop the domestic defense industry. It asks the government for recommendations on where to source the funds required to boost defense procurement.
04.2024

4 Speeches

Economic viewpoints center on the labor market, emphasizing the need to address the high unemployment rate (8%). The speaker prioritizes employing and retraining domestic workers over importing foreign skilled labor, citing the underutilization of the national labor resource.
03.2024

2 Speeches

The economic implications are indirect, tied to the resource plan of the national defense development program, which involves defense spending and may therefore affect the state budget. This budgetary impact is the justification for why the draft bill requires a majority vote of the full membership of the Riigikogu (51 votes).
02.2024

4 Speeches

The economic positions center on supporting the confiscation of Russia’s frozen assets and allocating those funds toward Ukraine’s reconstruction, thereby emphasizing the financial penalization of the aggressor. Other broader economic policy stances (regarding taxation or regulations) are lacking.
01.2024

4 Speeches

Insufficient data.