European Ombudswoman Emily O’Reilly defended her mandate (December 20, 2019)
Brussels, 18 December 2019 – Irish candidate Emily O’Reilly defended her position as European Ombudswoman today in the third round of voting. She…
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The EU is not a cash machine for oligarchs and politicians (December 11, 2019)
Proposals to end fraud in farm subsidies Farm subsidies make up the biggest portion of EU spending and are an indispensable measure to…
Kolaja: the French implementation of the Copyright Directive counter the conclusions of the European Commission (December 9, 2019)
Brussels, 9/12/2019 – France started the implementation process of the copyright directive; however, the proposal as it stands currently goes against the original…
Pirate Party of Finland elected a new Board (December 2, 2019)
Pirate Party of Finland gathered for extra party congress in Töölö, Helsinki 30.11.2019. In gathering Pekka Mustonen from Joensuu was elected as a…
European Pirates voted against the new European Commission (November 27, 2019)
In today’s vote, Pirates MEPs voted against the new European Commission under the leadership of Ursula von der Leyen. Neither the digital policy,…
EU terror filter negotiations to begin: Here’s where we stand (September 24, 2019)
Today, the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee has recommended “Trilogue” negotiations on the EU scheme to “prevent the dissemination of terrorist content online”…
It would be a negligence to support Christine Lagarde as head of ECB (September 17, 2019)
The European Pirates will oppose Christine Lagarde becoming the new head of the European Central Bank. The reason is simple – In December…
What will the new Commission bring? (September 13, 2019)
This week, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has not only published the competences of the individual Commissioners but…
German copyright public consultation is open now: make your voice heard! (August 28, 2019)
Where we are in the process Despite the many controversial issues surrounding the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive, the legislation got…
Pirate Marcel Kolaja elected Vice-President of the European Parliament (July 3, 2019)
Strasbourg, 3/7/2019 – The European Parliament just elected European Pirate Marcel Kolaja as its Vice-President. “As a newly elected Member of the European…