Pirates celebrate wins in DMA, but industry interests prevail in DSA (July 5, 2022)
Strasbourg, 05/07/2022 – Today, the European Parliament approves the final versions of both the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act…
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Egypt: A tourist’s paradise but a human rights hell. Europe can help (June 27, 2022)
Mikuláš Peksa: Egypt has been through several revolutions in the last decade, but everything seems to have ended even worse than it started.…
Event: European Pirates hosted DG MEME at the EU Parliament (June 22, 2022)
On 21 June 2022, the European Pirates hosted an evening on political communication with the legendary political influencer Fabio Mauri, admin of the…
AI Act: E-proctoring is a high-risk application, according to CULT Committee’s opinion (June 15, 2022)
15/06/2022 – The CULT Committee voted on the AI Act opinion this morning. MEPs agreed on an updated list of high-risk applications in…
Russia’s Today can Become Iran’s Tomorrow (June 14, 2022)
By Dr. Reza Parchizadeh Throughout modern history, Iran has always followed in the footsteps of its powerful neighbor Russia in adopting almost identical…
Closer to a climate neutral EU: Pirates support Fit for 55 package (June 8, 2022)
Update: Pirate Party MEPs and the Greens/EFA Group along with a progressive majority have successfully voted down a considerably weakened position on the…
Media freedom in danger? The Visegrád Group as Achilles’ heel of Europe (May 31, 2022)
The latest survey shows that more than half of Czech citizens think that media freedom is in danger. This pattern is similar in…
Russia’s energy companies have been influencing the energy policy of European countries for a long time. How? (May 25, 2022)
Mikuláš Peksa: The ties between Russian energy companies and European politicians have been powerful. Europe’s dependency on Russian fossil fuels has proven to…
Is Europe in danger of food insecurity or devastating food prices? (May 25, 2022)
Mikuláš Peksa: “Food prices going up, bread will get more expensive”, “High gas prices make industrial fertiliser prices soar”, “Food crisis in Europe”.…
DMA close to approval: Solo ride of tech giants coming to an end (May 16, 2022)
Brussels, 16/05/2022 – Today, the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) approved the final wording of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Pirate…