6th Council Meeting 2020 (May 18, 2020)
Despite the dangerous pandemic, Pirate party cannot stop working. We need to move forward. We hereby invite you to the upcoming on-line Council…
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European Parliament strongly recommends any software developed by and for the EU institutions to be made publicly available under Free and Open Source Software licence (May 15, 2020)
Brussels, 15/5/2020 – Yesterday, in plenary, the European Parliament endorsed a number of budgetary discharge reports, which include Pirate amendments urging EU institutions to predominantly use Open Source solutions. This success happened despite the…
Patrick Breyer: Stop biometric mass surveillance now! (May 14, 2020)
Pirate Party and Greens/EFA Member of the European Parliament Patrick Breyer supports today’s call by 44 civil society organisations on EU bodies and EU Member…
Lessons learned from the Avia law (May 13, 2020)
MEP Marcel Kolaja: While the European Union is about to start the process leading to the adoption of the Digital Services Act, a.k.a.…
ANTI-CORRUPTION INTERGROUP: PREVENT CORRUPTION IN CORONA EMERGENCY FUNDS (May 12, 2020)
EU emergency funds have more risk of being misused, as parliamentary scrutiny and normal budgetary control measures are being abolished to ease their…
EPP is trying to destroy Pirates’ efforts to use Free Open Source Software (May 12, 2020)
We, Pirates, want to inform you that the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament is trying to destroy Pirates’ efforts to…
Streaming quality reduction (May 10, 2020)
MEP MARCEL KOLAJA: Lockdown, social distancing, work from home, and on-line schooling resulted in an increased demand for Internet connectivity during the coronavirus…
India: The world’s largest lockdown (May 6, 2020)
MEP Marcel Kolaja: India has adopted the largest worldwide lockdown and 1.3 billion people must stay at their homes since March 25. To prevent the…
1st joint Meeting of the PPEU and the PPI (May 4, 2020)
Pirates everywhere! we hereby invite to the historical first joint meeting of the PPEU and the PPI Board on May 17th 2020 at…
Fundamental infrastructure of the Internet must stay out of reach of commercial entities (May 4, 2020)
Last week, the ICANN board of directors rejected a very controversial proposal to change of control and entity conversion with potentially harmful repercussions.…