Pirates strongly oppose undemocratic threshold in European elections (May 3, 2022)
Strasbourg, 03/05/2022 – Today, the European Parliament approved a legislative initiative for new electoral rules to be applied to European elections. Pirate Party…
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EU Digital Services Act: Industry and government interests prevail over citizens’ digital rights (April 26, 2022)
After 16 hours of discussion, negotiators from the European Parliament and EU governments have made deal on a new EU Digital Services Act…
Pirate MEPs send open letter to Boris Johnson, fear Assange could die in the US (April 22, 2022)
Brussels, 22/04/2022 – The Pirate Party Members of the European Parliament penned an open letter to the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, calling…
Right to Repair must bring more rights for consumers, say Pirates (April 7, 2022)
Strasbourg – 07/04/2022 – Today, MEPs vote in plenary on a resolution for the “right to repair”, which was presented and adopted by…
Crypto: Pirates strongly oppose EU Parliament’s attack on anonymous payments (March 31, 2022)
31/03/2022 – Two committees of the European Parliament today approved a shared report on the regulation of cryptocurrencies. Pirate Party MEPs strongly oppose…
AI Act: MEP Kolaja calls for prohibition of emotion recognition systems (March 31, 2022)
31/03/2022 – Pirate Party MEP Marcel Kolaja, the CULT Committee opinion rapporteur on the Artificial Intelligence Act, tabled amendments suggesting a ban on…
DMA: European Pirates celebrate success with interoperability requirements in final trilogue results (March 25, 2022)
Brussels, 25/03/2022 – The Pirates in the European Parliament welcome the final trilogue outcome of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) that was negotiated…
Russian regime is abusing facial recognition systems to detect protesters (March 16, 2022)
Brussels, 15/03/2022 – Russian authorities abuse facial recognition systems to identify and persecute participants of anti-war demonstrations. Even before, as Amnesty International reported,…
New media law: Russia’s tightens internet and press censorship (March 7, 2022)
Brussels/Strasbourg, 07/03/2022 – The Russian regime is tightening internet and press censorship in the country. On Friday, a law to ban the spread…
Pirates support Ukraine resolution, warn against censorship (March 1, 2022)
The European Parliament today adopts a resolution strongly condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and calling for further sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s regime.…