By Plenary Sessions: Peeter Tali
Total Sessions: 41
Fully Profiled: 41
2025-10-15
The 15th Riigikogu, VI Session, Plenary Sitting
Support is provided for productivity-enhancing investments, increased funding for science (Horizon), and simpler rules for utilizing EU funds. The objective is to enhance competitiveness and ensure Estonia maintains a positive net position (estimated at 1.9 billion euros).
2025-10-08
The 15th Riigikogu, 6th Session, Plenary Sitting
Advocates for the use of technological tools to achieve maximum efficiency in ensuring security with the lowest possible costs. The economic view emphasizes efficiency, pointing to Estonia's small population and the need to delegate some work to machines.
2025-09-25
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary session
Support is given to a liberal, right-wing economic policy that combines brutal cuts to the operating costs of ministries (112 million euros) with strategic borrowing to ensure security. Tax changes are deemed necessary to increase the disposable income of lower-income individuals and average-wage workers and to stimulate economic growth (with hopes for a 3% increase next year).
2025-09-24
Fifteenth Riigikogu, sixth sitting, plenary sitting.
Insufficient data.
2025-09-17
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary sitting.
The economic considerations here relate to regulations impacting the construction and real estate sectors. The objective is to establish clear guidelines and a unified deadline (July 1, 2026) for real estate developers and builders to plan their activities, all while ensuring that security requirements are met.
2025-09-11
15th Riigikogu, 6th plenary sitting
Economic perspectives stress the importance of financial regulation and institutional resilience during extreme crisis situations. There is a preference for robust fiscal discipline and preparedness, which would guarantee the financial system's operation even when infrastructure is lacking.
2025-09-10
15th Riigikogu, 6th sitting, plenary session
There is not enough data.
2025-09-04
15th Riigikogu, extraordinary session of the Riigikogu
There is not enough data.
2025-06-18
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
Insufficient data
2025-06-16
XV Riigikogu, V Session, Plenary Sitting
Insufficient data. The discussion centers on establishing infrastructure for civil defense and crisis preparedness (shelters, training), not on fiscal policy, taxes, or economic growth.
2025-06-04
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
Economic views are linked to the defense sector, advocating for increased defense expenditures and stressing the need to develop domestic production capacity for anti-personnel mines. The aim is to guarantee the necessary expertise (know-how) and rapid delivery in a crisis situation, which requires a national investment into the defense industry.
2025-05-15
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
Supports state funding for education, culture, and national defense, noting that Estonia funds these sectors better than the European average. Calls for research and development funding to reach at least 1% of the gross domestic product (GDP). Stresses the necessity of an educated workforce, given that technological advancements and robotics are taking over simpler jobs that only require basic schooling.
2025-05-14
15th Riigikogu, 5th sitting, plenary session
There is insufficient data.
2025-04-09
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session
There are no economic perspectives, apart from a brief mention of the direct impact of security decisions on stock markets. It is mentioned that a press release concerning the mining of the Gulf of Finland would be immediately visible on the stock markets.
2025-03-26
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
Not enough data
2025-03-11
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
The economic perspectives are implicit, emphasizing the need to involve Estonian engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs in national defense. This indicates support for an innovation-based and technology-intensive economy, which serves national security interests.
2025-02-25
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary session
Insufficient data.
2025-02-11
15th Riigikogu, 5th session, plenary sitting
Insufficient data.
2025-01-22
15th Estonian Parliament, 5th session, plenary session.
Not enough data.
2024-12-11
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary session
It supports getting the state finances in order and moving towards balance, although it finds that the cuts to expenditures and bureaucracy are insufficient. The security tax is treated as a solidarity tax necessary for everyone. This tax encompasses both the corporate profit tax component (slightly under 600 million euros) and other taxpayers. The priority is economic competitiveness and growth.
2024-12-04
15th Estonian Parliament, 4th session, plenary sitting
The economic views concern defense spending, providing specific budget figures for foreign missions (planned at 11.62 million euros this year and under 9 million next year). Increased defense spending is supported, leading to improvements in the equipment of the Defense Forces and the Defense League (e.g., G-Class Mercedes vehicles).
2024-11-06
15th Riigikogu, 4th session, plenary sitting
Not enough data
2024-11-05
Fifteenth Riigikogu, fourth session, plenary session
Economic priorities center on strengthening the European Union's single market and cutting red tape to alleviate the burden on businesses and the public sector. Support is provided for protecting the competitiveness of European industry—for instance, through tariffs on Chinese cars—to combat unfair competition (including intellectual property theft, forced labor, and the failure to meet environmental standards). It is stressed that the Estonian people have never lived as well or as safely as they do now, thanks to the EU single market.
2024-10-23
15th Riigikogu, 4th sitting, plenary session
Not enough data.
2024-09-25
15th Riigikogu, 4th sitting, plenary session
The economic outlook advocates for an aggressive sanctions policy, calling for a complete trade embargo against Russia aimed at cutting energy revenues (especially LNG). The position holds that doing business with the aggressor state corrupts business people, officials, and politicians, thereby threatening the rule of law. It supports the highly effective work of the Tax and Customs Board in enforcing sanctions and collecting taxes.
2024-09-18
15th Estonian Parliament, 4th sitting, plenary session
Data missing
2024-09-11
Fifteenth Riigikogu, fourth session, plenary session
Economic perspectives focus on ensuring financial stability through cybersecurity, citing warnings issued by the International Monetary Fund. Regulatory measures (DORA, NIS2) are supported to enhance risk management and ensure operational resilience within the financial sector, thereby preventing significant economic losses.
2024-06-13
Fifteenth Riigikogu, Third Session, Plenary Session
Economic perspectives focus on the financing of national defense expenditures and fiscal balance, acknowledging the reluctance toward both tax increases and significant budget cuts. The speaker is exploring the possibility of excluding national defense costs from the measurement of the budget balance, citing the need for extraordinary fiscal measures.
2024-05-16
Fifteenth Riigikogu, Third Session, Plenary Session
Economic views strongly back national economic growth through the defense industry, specifically demanding that major government procurements be channeled into domestic production. The necessity of clear tax policy is also emphasized, aimed at securing the necessary funds for increased defense spending.
2024-05-06
15th Riigikogu, 3rd sitting, plenary session.
No data available.
2024-04-18
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary sitting
There is too little data.
2024-04-10
15th Estonian Parliament, 3rd session, plenary session
Not enough data
2024-04-09
15th Riigikogu, 3rd sitting, plenary session
Economic perspectives emphasize labor force problems and the need to invest in local human capital through retraining. This position is aimed at prioritizing the domestic workforce instead of importing foreign labor, thereby supporting an internal economic solution for reducing unemployment.
2024-03-13
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary sitting.
Economic perspectives indirectly touch upon national defense spending, as the new development plan relates to the resource plan, meaning defense expenditures. It is mentioned that the development plan could impact the state budget, which also prompted the debate over the majority required to adopt the bill. No direct positions are presented regarding taxes or economic regulation.
2024-03-12
15th Riigikogu, 3rd plenary sitting
Not enough data
2024-02-21
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary session
It is noted that many Estonian businesses have suffered in civil and family matters due to the activities of Russian courts. This indicates a concern regarding the protection of domestic business interests against an unfair foreign legal system, but a broader economic policy stance is not presented.
2024-02-20
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary session
Not enough data
2024-02-13
15th Estonian Parliament, 3rd session, plenary session
Economic positions are limited to punishing the aggressor, demanding the confiscation of Russia’s frozen assets and their channeling into Ukraine’s reconstruction. This is rather a matter of sanctions and reparations than a general fiscal policy stance.
2024-01-23
15th Riigikogu, 3rd sitting, plenary session
Economic perspectives strongly advocate for investments in high-tech domestic industries (defense and aerospace). This is viewed as a means of achieving strategic security and technological superiority, necessitating state support for innovative procurement policies.
2024-01-18
15th Riigikogu, 3rd sitting, plenary session
There isn't enough data.
2024-01-16
15th Riigikogu, 3rd session, plenary sitting
Insufficient data