#Qatargate: New Ethics Body is toothless (June 9, 2023)
Today, the European Commission presented its plans for an inter-institutional Ethics Body in response to the “Qatargate” corruption scandal in the European Parliament to…
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10 years after the revelations of Edward Snowden: Let‘s defend anonymity and secure communication online! (June 6, 2023)
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the day Edward Snowden revealed the mass surveillance programmes of intelligence agencies worldwide. EU lawmaker and privacy…
AI Act: Lead committees to ban facial surveillance in Europe (May 11, 2023)
Strasbourg, 11/05/2023 – Today, the two lead committees of the European Parliament voted to fully ban biometric mass surveillance in Europe’s public spaces,…
Leaked EU Council legal analysis: #ChatControl plans doomed to fail (May 9, 2023)
The Council’s official Legal Service opinion on the legality of the proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR), also named “Chat control”, has been leaked. The…
Pirates: New EU crypto rules will harm NGOs and whistleblowers (April 20, 2023)
Strasbourg, 20/04/2023 – Today, the European Parliament is expected to approve the results of the trilogue negotiations on new regulations for cryptocurrencies. Pirate…
European Pirate Party elects new leadership and aims for expansion (April 17, 2023)
Strasbourg, 16/04/2023 – Today, the European Pirate party (PPEU) has elected new leadership in their Council meeting held in Strasbourg. In addition, Mikuláš…
OpenRequest: Pirates launch citizen participation website (March 28, 2023)
Brussels, 28/03/2023 – The Pirate Party Members of the European Parliament are launching OpenRequest, a unique participatory tool giving citizens the opportunity to…
Against AI mass surveillance in Paris 2024: 41 MEPs address French Parliament (March 20, 2023)
Today, 41 MEPs from different political groups address the French Parliament with an open letter (version française). In the letter, the MEPs call…
e-ID: Decentralised storage and right to anonymity are additional Pirate successes in final trilogue mandate (March 15, 2023)
Brussels, 15/03/2023 – On Thursday, the European Parliament is expected to formally adopt its final position on the European Electronic Identity (e-ID), before…
Pirate MEP Peksa to meet Dalai Lama and Tibetan Exile Government (March 8, 2023)
Brussels/Dharamsala, 08/03/2023 – Mikuláš Peksa, the Chairman of the Tibet Interest Group in the European Parliament, will visit the Dalai Lama and the…