By Months: Peeter Tali

Total Months: 10

Fully Profiled: 10

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

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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

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