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…
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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…
Golden passports: The EU’s backdoor for Russian oligarchs (March 30, 2022)
Mikuláš Peksa: While Russia was threatening Europe with war in Ukraine, Russian oligarchs were buying EU passports in Bulgaria. The whole world’s attention…
WANTED: Network Officer for Pirate Parties Campaigns and Outreach Unit Contractual Agent (FG III) (March 30, 2022)
We inform you that the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament is looking for a full-time Network Officer for relations with Pirate Parties (fixed-term…
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…
Chat control: Leaked Commission paper EU mass surveillance plans (March 24, 2022)
(Disclaimer: This text was uploaded on 24 March and updated on 30 March) A newly-revealed Opinion of a European Commission review board about their…
The European Court of Auditors: how does the EU budget watchdog work, and why should it interest you? (March 22, 2022)
The European Union processes an unthinkably vast sum of money every year. But who takes care of it? Do you know how big…
The next decade will mark a revolution in taxation. Blockchain is changing the game, but Europe is standing still (March 18, 2022)
Mikuláš Peksa: The last year brought us one step closer to tax justice. But last year’s success will not take us to our…
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,…