Jaak Madison

Madison has said that the European Union should return to its original form, that of a union for economic and trade cooperation between sovereign states.{{Cite web|date=2019-01-14|title=Eesti poliitikud peavad tulevasi eurovalimisi murrangulisteks|url=https://www.err.ee/898426/eesti-poliitikud-peavad-tulevasi-eurovalimisi-murrangulisteks|access-date=2020-06-27|website=ERR|language=et}} He has said that a federalized European Union is the greatest threat to nation states.{{Cite web|date=2016-10-18|title=Jaak Madison: Euroopa Liidu föderaliseerumine ohustab rahvusriiklust|url=https://www.riigikogu.ee/fraktsioonide-teated/eesti-konservatiivse-rahvaerakonna-fraktsioon/jaak-madison-euroopa-liidu-foderaliseerumine-ohustab-rahvusriiklust/|access-date=2020-06-27|website=Riigikogu|language=et}}

Madison has claimed that the European Union is already on its way to becoming a federal state, as member states lack many of the features of an independent state.{{Cite web|date=2019-04-25|title=Jaak Madison: Euroopa Liidu kui riikide liiduga on asjad juba täna kehvasti|url=https://uueduudised.ee/arvamus/jaak-madison-euroopa-liidu-kui-riikide-liiduga-on-asjad-juba-tana-kehvasti/|access-date=2020-06-27|website=Uued Uudised|language=et}}

Madison has opposed the idea of a European Union Minister for Finance,{{Cite web|date=2019-04-11|title=Madison: meil on europarlamendi valimistel võimalik saada kaks kohta|url=https://www.err.ee/929455/madison-meil-on-europarlamendi-valimistel-voimalik-saada-kaks-kohta|access-date=2020-06-27|website=ERR|language=et}} saying that issues such as government budget and immigration must be left to the member states. He has argued against qualified majority voting, saying that it deprives smaller countries of decision-making power on issues.{{Cite web|date=2019-05-13|title=Jaak Madison: Eesti saadik peab töötama europarlamendi mõjuvõimu vähendamise nimel|url=https://arvamus.postimees.ee/6682328/jaak-madison-eesti-saadik-peab-tootama-europarlamendi-mojuvoimu-vahendamise-nimel|access-date=2020-06-27|website=Arvamus|language=et}}

Madison has said Estonia must withdraw from the border agreement between Estonia and Russia and start new talks on the basis of the Treaty of Tartu.{{Cite web|date=2018-07-06|title=Jaak Madison: Eesti ja Venemaa piirilepingust oleks saanud taganeda möödunud aastal|url=https://arvamus.postimees.ee/4565634/jaak-madison-eesti-ja-venemaa-piirilepingust-oleks-saanud-taganeda-moodunud-aastal|access-date=2020-06-27|website=Arvamus|language=et}} In 2018, Madison said that if the border treaty is ratified under the current conditions, Russia could claim that the Treaty of Tartu is no longer legally valid.{{Cite web|date=2018-12-04|title=Jaak Madison: Eesti peab allkirja piirileppelt Venemaaga tagasi võtma|url=https://www.postimees.ee/6469396/jaak-madison-eesti-peab-allkirja-piirileppelt-venemaaga-tagasi-votma|access-date=2020-06-27|website=Postimees|language=et}}

He has opposed defense cooperation and security policy with France or Germany, and in favour of cooperation with the other Baltic states, Poland, Hungary, the United States{{Cite web|date=2019-01-14|title=Jaak Madison: Euroopa Liit tuleb juhtida tagasi oma lätete juurde, milleks on iseseisvate rahvusriikide koostööühendus|url=https://uueduudised.ee/uudis/eesti/jaak-madison-euroopa-liit-tuleb-juhtida-tagasi-oma-latete-juurde-milleks-on-iseseisvate-rahvusriikide-koostoouhendus/|access-date=2020-06-27|website=Uued Uudised|language=et|archive-date=29 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629194438/https://uueduudised.ee/uudis/eesti/jaak-madison-euroopa-liit-tuleb-juhtida-tagasi-oma-latete-juurde-milleks-on-iseseisvate-rahvusriikide-koostoouhendus/|url-status=dead}} and Finland.{{Cite web|date=2019-09-02|title=Jaak Madison: Eesti eesmärk peab olema Soome algatatud Skandinaavia kaitsekoostööga liitumine|url=https://arvamus.postimees.ee/6767152/jaak-madison-eesti-eesmark-peab-olema-soome-algatatud-skandinaavia-kaitsekoostooga-liitumine|access-date=2020-06-27|website=Arvamus|language=et}}

In 2018, in the foreign policy magazine Diplomaatia, Madison named supporting and keeping in touch with Estonian communities abroad as a key issue for the survival of Estonia, which should not be compromised for realpolitical reasons. Madison also took this view on the issue of Estonians in Crimea, arguing that the occupation of Crimea by Russia must not mean that Estonia no longer supports Estonians living there. He stated that Estonia must pursue a value-based foreign policy, which means that any Estonian living anywhere in the world is important to Estonia and we should do everything in our power to keep their ties with Estonia.{{Cite web|title=Kuidas hoida eestluse tuld piiri taga?|url=https://diplomaatia.ee/kuidas-hoida-eestluse-tuld-piiri-taga/|access-date=2020-06-27|website=Diplomaatia|date=8 June 2018|language=et}}

Madison believes that mass immigration does not affect Estonia.{{Cite web|date=2019-02-08|title=Jaak Madison – noor mees vana kalana poliitikavees|url=https://uueduudised.ee/varia/jaak-madison-noor-mees-vana-kalana-poliitikavees/|access-date=2020-06-27|website=Uued Uudised|language=et}}

In January 2019, he said that a low immigration quota (up to 1300 people a year) was not a problem because there was free movement of labor in the European Union and an increase in the immigration quota would be only for cheap labor, which would lower local wages. Madison supports not having a quota for highly skilled workers who earn triple the average wage.{{Cite web|date=11 January 2019|title=Tagatoa rändesaade {{!}} Madison laseks suure palgaga töötajad sisserännu kvoodita Eestisse. Kaljulaid küsib: mis saab neist kriisi korral?|url=https://www.delfi.ee/a/84994813|access-date=2020-06-27|website=Delfi|language=et}}

In 2018, he expressed the view that those with Estonian alien's passport who have lived in Estonia since 1991 should be given five years to decide what citizenship they want. Those who do not acquire Estonian citizenship during this period will have their residence permit revoked.{{Cite web|date=25 April 2018|title=Madison: hallipassimeestel, kes viie aasta jooksul kodakondsust ei taotle, tuleks elamisluba tühistada|url=https://www.delfi.ee/a/81892117|access-date=2020-06-27|website=Delfi|language=et}}

Madison is against the legalization of same-sex cohabitation, the right of same-sex couples to adopt,{{Cite web|title=Jaak Madison: homoseksuaalsus on hälve {{!}} Õhtuleht|url=https://www.ohtuleht.ee/732727/jaak-madison-homoseksuaalsus-on-halve|access-date=2020-06-27|website=www.ohtuleht.ee|language=et}} national facilitation of gender reassignment{{Cite web|title=Jaak Madison: soovahetust lihtsustada plaaniv valitsus võlgneb avalikkusele selgituse {{!}} EKRE – Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond|url=https://ekre.ee/jaak-madison-soovahetust-lihtsustada-plaaniv-valitsus-volgneb-avalikkusele-selgituse/|access-date=2020-06-27|language=et}} and abortion outside of certain cases.{{Cite web|date=2019-04-15|title=Jaak Madison: ma ei poolda aborte, mis on tehtud lihtsalt mugavusest|url=https://poliitika.postimees.ee/6570125/jaak-madison-ma-ei-poolda-aborte-mis-on-tehtud-lihtsalt-mugavusest|access-date=2020-06-27|website=Poliitika|language=et}}

He supports the reinstatement of the death penalty for serious crimes{{Cite web|date=10 November 2017|title=Jaak Madison Viljandi mõrvajuhtumist: ehk oleks mõistlik mõelda surmanuhtlusele|url=https://www.delfi.ee/a/80125368|access-date=2020-06-27|website=Delfi|language=et}} and believes surrogacy should be made illegal.{{Cite web|date=2018-10-11|title=Madison asendusemadusest: inimkaubanduses osalejaid tuleb karistada|url=https://www.err.ee/868413/madison-asendusemadusest-inimkaubanduses-osalejaid-tuleb-karistada|access-date=2020-06-27|website=ERR|language=et}}

In March 2015, media reported about Madison's blog post which defended the economic aspects of the Nazi regime. He had written: "It is true that there were concentration camps, forced labour camps, games with gas chambers were being played, but at the same time such a 'strict' order brought Germany at the time out of a thorough shithole, because development, that admittedly concentrated primarily on the development of the military industry, brought the country only within a couple of years to one of the most powerful in Europe."

His blog post further claimed that while Madison did not seek to justify Nazi mass murders, he nonetheless felt that the Holocaust had 'positive aspects'.{{Cite web|url=https://sakala.postimees.ee/3109783/jaak-madison-ei-ole-olemas-riigikordi-mis-on-udini-halvad|title=Jaak Madison: ei ole olemas riigikordi, mis on üdini halvad|date=3 March 2015|website=Sakala}} The media also cited his comments from spring 2014 that "It is unfortunately a fact that only now it is being more widely understood and recognized that a national purification is needed, that would create premises that exactly those pro-Estonian ones would gain superiority among the Russians".{{Cite web|url=https://www.err.ee/530768/sotsiaalmeedias-levib-veel-uks-ekre-poliitiku-vastakaid-arvamusi-tekitav-postitus|title=Sotsiaalmeedias levib veel üks EKRE poliitiku vastakaid arvamusi tekitav postitus|date=3 March 2015|website=ERR}} This was largely condemned by public and the Reform Party, which left EKRE out of the coalition talks. The PM Taavi Rõivas pointed out it was causing him grief that a young politician treated Nazism that had caused so much suffering to people in a justifying manner and wondered, whether sugarcoating fascism and ridiculing crimes against humanity was a general line of Madison's party.{{Clarify|date=August 2019}}

Israel's Foreign Ministry told the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights that it did not want to meet with them, as the subcommittee's member Jaak Madison shares pro-Nazi views, Postimees reported, citing the Jerusalem Post.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry notified the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights that it would not meet with the group because it includes Estonian lawmaker Jaak Madison, leading to the trip's cancelation.

Madison raised controversy again later in March, when he was fined for retaining a passenger's lost smartphone, which he should have placed in "lost and found" and selling it online while working for ferry company Tallink.{{cite web |url=http://news.err.ee/v/a53b68d7-4df5-4fa4-a8a2-9ce42778c8ab |title=New MP Madison in trouble again, this time for minor embezzlement |date=31 March 2015 |publisher=ERR |access-date= 12 April 2015 }} In April, some female workers of Tallink also accused Madison of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Tallink launched an internal investigation of the incidents, whilst Madison called the accusations absurd.{{cite web |url=http://poliitika.postimees.ee/3170955/tallink-alustas-jaak-madisoni-ahistamisloo-asjus-sisejuurdlust |title=Tallink alustas Jaak Madisoni ahistamisloo asjus sisejuurdlust |publisher=Postimees |date= 27 April 2015 |access-date= 1 May 2015}}

In April of 2024, a 25-year-old Estonian European Commission intern accused Madison of conduct which frightened and insulted her during a night in March. The offense report includes the words "agression sexuelles" (French for sexual aggression) and reads under other circumstances: "Mental trauma and fear caused by a chance encounter." Madison denies the accusations and has said that he will seek damages in court from a woman who accused him of sexual harassment and from newspaper Eesti Ekspress for running the story. {{Cite web|url=https://news.err.ee/1609332750/estonian-mep-to-sue-woman-and-paper-following-allegations-of-sexual-harassment|title=Estonian MEP to sue woman and paper following allegations of sexual harassment|date=5 May 2024|website=ERR}}

Madison holds national-conservative views.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}} He has labelled gay people as deviants.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ohtuleht.ee/732727/jaak-madison-homoseksuaalsus-on-halve|title=Jaak Madison: homoseksuaalsus on hälve|website=www.ohtuleht.ee}} In May 2019, during an interview with The Guardian, he did not disown his earlier views from 2015 about praising the "positive aspects" Nazi Germany, his explanation being that "pushing people to camps was wrong" but the unemployment rate "was low".{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/21/racism-sexism-nazi-economics-estonia-far-right-in-power-ekre|title=Racism, sexism, Nazi economics: Estonia's far right in power|last=Walker|first=Shaun|newspaper=The Guardian |date=21 May 2019|via=www.theguardian.com}}

In August 2019, Madison used the term "Final Solution" within the context of Syrian refugees, using the German phrase Die endgültige Lösung ist erforderlich. The same phrase was used in Nazi Germany, which caused the action to make headlines. Madison protected the saying, claiming he does not want the Holocaust or concentration camps but an end to the refugee crisis.{{Cite web|url=https://uueduudised.ee/uudis/eesti/jaak-madison-ma-ei-soovi-holocausti-ega-koonduslaagreid-vaid-lahendust-randekriisile-mis-havitab-euroopat/|title=Jaak Madison: ma ei soovi holocausti ega koonduslaagreid, vaid lahendust rändekriisile, mis hävitab Euroopat|last=Uudised|first=Uued|date=2 August 2019|website=Uued Uudised}}{{Cite web |last=Tambur |first=Silver |date=2 August 2019 |title=Estonian radical MEP calls for a "final solution" against immigrants in Europe |url=https://estonianworld.com/security/estonian-radical-mep-calls-for-a-final-solution-against-immigrants-in-europe/ |website=Estonian World}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/02/estonian-mep-calls-final-solution-syrian-refugee-crisis/|title=Estonian MEP calls for 'final solution' to Syrian refugee crisis|last=Rothwell|first=James|date=2 August 2019|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=19 September 2019}}

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