By Months: Urve Tiidus
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
11.2025
5 Speeches
The speaker strongly supports accession to the Convention establishing the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities, emphasizing the usefulness of international agreements in achieving clear objectives. Furthermore, the necessity of boosting Estonian productivity to catch up with Finland's level was highlighted. Solutions proposed include leveraging artificial intelligence and addressing the issue of youth who are not in employment, education, or training (NEETs). Consequently, the political focus encompasses both international compliance and the nation's economic performance.
10.2025
26 Speeches
The most prominent topic is the 2026 budget and the specific earmarking of motor vehicle tax revenue for road maintenance. The speaker adopts a moderately questioning stance, emphasizing the aspects of budget execution and regional equity in the financing of road maintenance. The focus is primarily outcome-oriented, questioning whether the allocated funding will actually be sufficient.
09.2025
15 Speeches
The political position is moderately critical of excessive regulation, particularly in the financial and communications sectors, stressing the need to ease requirements for the installation of cables and masts. The focus is on practical results, such as high-speed internet access in sparsely populated areas and ensuring food security, demanding specific examples and forecasts from officials. The speaker also questions the justification for terminating the activities of savings and loan associations (credit unions) when those cooperatives have operated without problems for years.
06.2025
13 Speeches
The political focus is directed towards infrastructure (the availability of clean water in rural areas) and the future of the economy (investments in industry and education). The most acute discussion concerned the regulation of light personal mobility devices, where emphasis was placed on finding a balance between the rights of local governments and overly rigid (quota-based) restrictions. The positions taken are predominantly policy-driven and center on the practical implementation of regulations and the resulting administrative burden.
05.2025
9 Speeches
In his political activity, the speaker strongly emphasizes technological adaptation (artificial intelligence in public service, the judiciary, and education) and national security (cybercrime, money laundering). He supports the transposition of European Union regulations (cybersecurity, sustainable aviation fuel), while simultaneously considering the foundations of free competition to be essential. His focus is clearly policy-centric and future-oriented, stressing the necessity of responding to global trends.
04.2025
7 Speeches
The political focus is directed toward regulating technological development (artificial intelligence, cybercrime) and the associated ethical and security challenges. The politician emphasizes the state's capacity to guarantee security and privacy, and seeks mathematical and technical clarity in legislative drafting (gender equality, the legal competence of end-of-life declarations). The stance is cautious and oriented toward the quality of governance.
03.2025
2 Speeches
The political focus is directed at monitoring the national development strategy and economic indicators, particularly concerning expenditure on research and development (R&D). Border traffic and the precise statistical tracking of migrant movement are also crucial topics. The speaker adopts a results-based position, seeking confirmation and forecasts regarding the achievement of strategic goals (e.g., 2% of GDP allocated to R&D).
02.2025
7 Speeches
The political focus is strongly directed towards increasing efficiency and the pace of procedures in both foreign policy and court proceedings. The speaker supports the reduction of administrative burden (e.g., concerning radiation activity permits) and emphasizes the importance of long-term state safety projects (Paldiski radioactive waste), demanding speed and concrete action. His/Her approach is strongly results- and policy-based, constantly seeking metrics and evaluations.
01.2025
4 Speeches
The political position is focused on strict oversight and fiscal responsibility, demanding the precise calculation of the budgetary impacts resulting from increasing sick pay benefits. The quality of legislation is also emphasized, questioning why the target for the misuse of residence permits is not zero, and why the legislative process has become overly complicated. The focus is strongly policy- and results-driven, requiring specific numerical evidence.
12.2024
10 Speeches
The political position focuses heavily on regulatory clarity, accountability, and citizen protection. Key issues include employer responsibility concerning data, mitigating risks associated with goods imported from third countries, and the fight against cybercrime. Emphasis is placed on practical solutions and legislative precision, especially in the context of the state budget, demonstrating a clearly policy- and procedure-based approach.
11.2024
6 Speeches
In political activity, emphasis is placed on reducing the administrative burden, both for sports organizations and more broadly at the European Union level. On the international stage, the issue of the likelihood of increasing aid to Ukraine from the European Union's partner countries has been highlighted. The focus is strongly policy- and performance-based, seeking the quantification of the impacts of draft legislation and transparency regarding financial obligations.
10.2024
6 Speeches
The political stance centers on the oversight of social policy and legislation, particularly regarding child protection and the demographic crisis. He/She emphasizes the importance of accountability and control mechanisms when implementing new laws, suggesting a pragmatic and results-oriented approach. There is also criticism directed at the Center Party's past activities, which indicates an oppositional or skeptical position concerning government bills.
09.2024
5 Speeches
The political position strongly focuses on international security, emphasizing the obligation of NATO member states to exceed the 2% GDP threshold for defense spending. Domestically, the priority is the state of the rule of law within the European Union and the effectiveness of policy implementation, particularly in the environmental (end-of-life vehicles) and social sectors (organic food in schools). The questions are aimed at assessing policy effectiveness and obtaining future forecasts, which points to a results-based approach.
06.2024
5 Speeches
The political stance is heavily centered on the precision of legislation and regulations, as well as constitutional adherence, particularly regarding the building restriction zones defined by the Nature Conservation Act. Furthermore, emphasis is placed on ensuring the quality of risk analyses at both the national and local levels, and addressing the problem of judicial succession. This constitutes a primarily policy-based approach, seeking practical and procedural solutions to overcome bureaucratic obstacles.
05.2024
9 Speeches
The political focus is directed towards the details of implementing legislation and their real-world impact, such as preventing tax benefits for sugar substitutes. Key topics include protecting the reliability of e-voting, ensuring the quality of education and language instruction, and infrastructure financing issues, specifically referencing the possibility of taking out a loan for road construction. The positions taken are generally policy- and results-driven, seeking solutions to long-term problems (e.g., the shortage of engineers).
04.2024
3 Speeches
The political focus is on the thorough and critical assessment of the possibilities for introducing nuclear energy in Estonia. The speaker emphasizes the need to secure guarantees regarding the economic viability of nuclear energy and raises questions about the omitted environmental impacts (specifically, high water usage). The stance taken is primarily policy- and results-driven, concentrating on the report's deficiencies and risk mitigation.
03.2024
10 Speeches
The political position centers broadly on the functionality of systems and the implementation of reforms across education, healthcare, and energy sectors. A key political topic involved restricting the voting rights of citizens of the Russian Federation and Belarus, with the speaker monitoring the government’s delivery on promises during the development of the necessary legal framework. The overall approach is largely policy- and procedure-driven, focusing on seeking solutions and evaluating the optimism surrounding the reforms.
02.2024
4 Speeches
It focuses strongly on international order and security, emphasizing the need to strengthen the rules-based world order, even while acknowledging the sharp contrast between this principle and reality. It moderately supports amending the Aliens Act (EU Blue Card), stressing the necessity of finding a middle ground between labor requirements and internal security interests. The political focus is both value-based (the struggle between good and evil) and policy-based (the transposition of the directive).
01.2024
10 Speeches
The political focus is strongly directed towards adhering to the principles of good law-making and reducing the regulatory burden, emphasizing the minimization of state intervention. The politician stresses avoiding undue restriction on property and entrepreneurship, and ensuring international competitiveness through the legal framework. Important topics also include the successful management of the education network reform in cooperation with local governments, and the international dimension of research and development. The political framework is clearly procedural and policy-based.