European joint action on disinformation (June 29, 2020)
Marcel Kolaja: During the COVID-19 crisis, people witnessed an unprecedented amount of disinformation. Bad actors spread false information in bad faith—capitalizing on the…
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Wednesday night massacre in free software field (June 29, 2020)
America’s free voice comes under President Trump’s control, amid fears of no more funding for open source for Internet freedom. “Wednesday night massacre”…
Cross-border workers Resolution: freedom of movement, protection and quality working conditions (June 25, 2020)
The closing of internal EU borders was an unprecedented move, which resulted in millions of cross-border workers to suddenly find themselves left without…
European Parliament confirmed the unacceptability of the Czech Prime Minister’s conflict of interests (June 22, 2020)
Following years of investigation and public protest against the misuse of EU funds and conflict of interest of the Czech Prime Minister Andrej…
Remote voting in the European Parliament (June 18, 2020)
Marcel Kolaja: The COVID-19 crisis created a lot of challenge on many fronts. The European Parliament is not an exception. One of the challenges…
Copyright in the digital single market and data protection (June 12, 2020)
A letter from Pirate MEP Marcel Kolaja, Vice-President of the European Parliament, and its signatories (including all Pirate MEPs) to the Commissioner Thierry…
Internal documents: Terrorist content online on the decline, but governments want upload filters (June 12, 2020)
Patrick Breyer: The amount of terrorist content online is decreasing but EU governments are still calling for upload filters, reveal internal documents released by the…
NGOs in Hungary warn the transitional bill is an “optical illusion” (June 12, 2020)
MIKULÁŠ PEKSA: Last March, when Orbán put in place the state of emergency, as a response to the COVID-19 outbreak, I already expressed grave…
Mikuláš Peksa: Most of Europe wants the European Parliament to have a single seat Brussel (June 2, 2020)
3rd June 2020 – In recent days, Pirate Party MEP Mikuláš Peksa has sent a letter calling for the European Parliament to establish…
Pirates: The “Next Generation EU” plan is going in the right direction, could be better in certain details (May 29, 2020)
Brussels, 27/5/2020 – Yesterday, the European Commission unveiled the Next Generation EU Plan in order to get the situation back under control as…