By Months: Jaak Valge
Total Months: 19
Fully Profiled: 19
10.2025
6 Speeches
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09.2025
28 Speeches
Advocates for a shift in economic policy thinking, moving away from low-wage jobs and mass immigration toward jobs with higher added value. It argues that mass immigration lowers productivity (which has fallen from 84% to 78% of the EU average) and stagnates wage growth. It believes that the state's goal cannot be the creation of cheap jobs and that prison jobs divert people away from the needs of national defense and law enforcement.
06.2025
22 Speeches
The speaker is strongly opposed to expansive growth and increasing the total number of jobs, emphasizing the necessity of reducing positions while boosting their added value and productivity. He criticizes the government's policies, which, according to OECD data, have resulted in a decline in both productivity and competitiveness. He views the current migration policy as an attempt to import cheap labor rather than attracting highly skilled specialists.
05.2025
10 Speeches
The speaker is a strong proponent of the market economy, who opposes government intervention in the labor market through the importation of cheap foreign labor, arguing that this violates the principles of the market economy and stifles wage growth and innovation. He calls for the economy to be directed toward high value-added sectors and productivity growth, rather than the creation of low-wage jobs. He supports Jaak Aaviksoo’s position that foreign workers should not be brought in until productivity has reached the EU average level.
04.2025
6 Speeches
The economic viewpoints are strongly deregulatory, emphasizing that over-regulation undermines competitiveness. They favor meritocracy and selection based on competence for corporate governing bodies, opposing the introduction of criteria that impede the organic development of success.
03.2025
13 Speeches
He is vehemently opposed to importing cheap labor, arguing that it depresses the wage levels of Estonians and obstructs economic innovation, causing Estonia to fall behind its neighbors in productivity. He advocates for reorienting the economy toward creating high value-added and knowledge-intensive jobs, citing zero-immigration countries like Taiwan and Singapore as positive examples.
02.2025
9 Speeches
Economic perspectives are critical of the immense wealth generated through financial transactions and speculation that is unrelated to the production of goods necessary for society. There is a demand for the state's tax ideology to be adjusted to these new conditions, supporting the implementation of a bank tax and increasing accountability to society. It is proposed that the excess profits of foreign banks (1.1 billion euros) be utilized to support the birth rate.
01.2025
7 Speeches
Economic views are linked to the defense of sovereignty, specifically by opposing massive projects—led by foreign investors from Norway, the Netherlands, England, and France—that are deemed neocolonialist. In the social sector, he/she criticizes the government for cutting support payments for large families, failing to index family benefits, and refusing to cancel student loans for students who become parents.
12.2024
8 Speeches
The economic platform includes opposition to raising excise duties unless such a move is coordinated with Latvia’s plans and accompanied by effective social measures, such as restrictions on sales hours. Regarding resources, it advocates a cautious approach, recommending that phosphorite and rare earth metals be reserved for future generations until robust and environmentally sustainable technology has been developed.
11.2024
9 Speeches
The economic platform is strongly anti-tax, arguing that new government taxes are detrimental to economic development and living standards. It maintains a critical stance toward the Eurozone, viewing it as the fundamental cause of the EU's declining economic competitiveness against the US and China. Attention is also drawn to the drop in Estonian labor productivity compared to neighboring countries, despite long working hours.
10.2024
8 Speeches
Supports the utilization of critical raw materials (phosphorite) as an economic opportunity, while simultaneously demanding transparency when establishing the concession mechanism. It strongly advocates for the extraordinary taxation of banks, citing Lithuania's positive economic growth following the implementation of a bank tax and Margaret Thatcher's historical example. The aim is to create a considerable economic opportunity for the state.
09.2024
4 Speeches
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07.2024
4 Speeches
The economic outlook is strongly opposed to tax increases, emphasizing the negative impact of high energy and loan interest rates, which generate billions in additional costs for businesses and individuals. It supports taxing banks' excess profits (as seen in Lithuania) and capping home loan interest rates (as done in Latvia) to stimulate consumption. Furthermore, it views the import of cheap labor as an indirect cause for the stagnation of economic innovation and proposes a national defense loan as an alternative.
06.2024
10 Speeches
Economic arguments emphasize increasing the income and welfare of the Estonian people, rather than growing the size of the economy through cheap labor. The speaker opposes tax increases and strongly supports implementing a bank solidarity tax, pointing out that it would generate three times more revenue than the motor vehicle tax. He sees the current economic policy as deepening the innovation crisis.
05.2024
19 Speeches
Strongly supports taxing banks' excess profits as a solidarity tax, citing Lithuania's successful experience, which generated half a billion euros. It opposes the tax hump (or the regressive income tax structure), which worsens the economic situation of pensioners and other population groups. Furthermore, it criticizes the higher education funding plan, emphasizing the necessity of reforms, given that the private sector's contribution remains the lowest in Europe.
04.2024
51 Speeches
Economically, he opposes measures that rigidify the labor structure, such as sector-specific wage demands, which slow down movement into sectors with higher added value. He advocates for modernizing the economy, increasing labor productivity, and extending healthy life years (which would add 50,000 workers to the workforce). He criticizes mass immigration because it suppresses the standard of living for low- and middle-income workers. He emphasizes that pension increases should be calculated in real terms, as inflation has negated those absolute figures.
03.2024
26 Speeches
The economic platform involves strong opposition to the proposed car tax, particularly due to its discriminatory impact on rural regions and large families. It advocates for reducing VAT on food items to prevent the decline of border trade and avoid prices rising to the levels seen in Finland or Sweden. Furthermore, it views economic stability and controlling the cost of living as essential prerequisites for increasing the birth rate, stressing that supporting children is an investment in the nation's future.
02.2024
28 Speeches
Economic perspectives connect mass immigration with declining labor productivity, while simultaneously advocating for the development of the domestic workforce through higher quality education. They support providing financial assistance to students (larger study loans) so that they can focus on their studies rather than working as cheap labor. Criticism is leveled at the poor competitive conditions faced by Estonian farmers (low EU direct payments and high VAT).
01.2024
37 Speeches
The speaker is a strong proponent of economic stimulus during the crisis, backing tax reductions (VAT, income tax lowered to 18.5%) aimed at boosting consumption and alleviating the crisis. He criticizes the government’s tax increases for fostering inflation and attributes the drop in labor productivity to the mass migration of cheap labor.