“We know that if the government wants, it is possible to find these funds. We remember that when the state budget was adopted, additional funds were soon found from the budget of the Ministry of Education, regardless of what was brought here to the State Assembly “If there is the will, many things can be done in politics. Today, members of the government simply do not have this will,” says Priit Sibul, vice-president of the Isamaa faction.
Of course, willpower alone no longer creates money. So where would opposition members find him? “There are several options here. You can withdraw from the reserve, set it aside at the moment in the balance sheet and at the same time you can take some measures, for example the taxation of banks’ super profits,” explains Vadim. Belovbrotsev, member of the Center Party.
“The army of civil servants grows like yeast, but there is never money. There will never be money to satisfy the demands and expectations of the workers who actually run the country. But for civil servants there is plenty of it money. There is a certain gap and a question of attitude here,” says EKRE vice-president Mart Helme. “If the teachers’ strike ended with the teachers resigning without achieving anything, then I would say that it would be extremely demoralizing for Estonian society. If it seems that the teachers are sticking to their demands and there are prospects that they will be satisfied to some extent, I think it has a healing effect on society, but it also leads to more strikes.”
However, opposition members do not foresee the collapse of the coalition.
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2024-01-25 08:01:44
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