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…
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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…
MEPs: Puigdemont shall not be prevented from the right to exercise his mandate (June 14, 2019)
Brussels, 14/6/2019 – After the newly elected Pirate MEPs established their delegation of European Pirates on Wednesday, 12th July, they met the newly…
European Pirates participated in the Greens/European Free Alliance group meeting (May 29, 2019)
29/5/2019, Brussels – Newly elected Pirate Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) started to negotiate joining one of the European political groups. “We…
“Christchurch Call”: Internet censorship does not protect against terrorism! (May 14, 2019)
The Pirate Party of Germany warns governments and Internet platforms against signing the so-called “Christchurch Call for the Elimination of Terrorist and Violent…
Sad Day for the Internet: The Fight Continues (March 26, 2019)
Brussels/Strasbourg, March 26, 2019 – The European Parliament approved today the Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market, so called Copyright Directive.…
The Common European Elections Programme is Signed! (March 1, 2019)
On 9th February, thirteen Pirate Parties from the European Union member countries signed what everyone worked on for the last year – our…
Tracking down license plate scanners (ANPR): Pirate Party publishes locations and presents detection device (February 4, 2019)
Automatic license plate reading systems (ANPR) are currently used in several German states to match the license plates of all passing cars with…
EU governments want to introduce electronic communications censorship (January 28, 2019)
Germany, Great Britain and several other EU governments want to have Internet connections, e-mails and whatsapp messages filtered for illegal content. In search…