The business of the backward areas should be exempted from some taxes. The outskirts need a proper infrastructure and the local workers there need some employment training and retraining. The areas lagging behind must find a certain function for themselves. The solution for the regional problems may be in the fact that in the information society the place of residence is no longer as important as before. The importance of Tartu beside Tallinn should grow in connection with the development of science.
Tourism plays an important role in the development of several areas.
It will not be possible to secure high density of population in the rural areas in the future due to negative population growth rate. The density of population decreases, especially when considering the continuance of urbanization. The platform has been signed at the convention of foundation of the Republican Party in Tartu, October 12, 1999.