12th meeting of the PPEU board (May 23, 2020)
Wonderful Pirates! We hereby invite you to the next board meeting of the PPEU on June 7th 2020 at 20:00 CEST. We will…
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Parliament’s voice in shaping the future Internet regulation (May 20, 2020)
Pirate MEP Marcel Kolaja: The Digital Services Act is expected to be one of the most important pieces of legislation in this parliamentary…
Scientist Matthijs Pontier: “Have more confidence in society” (May 19, 2020)
Tracing apps, emergency ordinances, more police on the streets to enforce the rules. Tackling the Corona crisis has a major impact on daily…
6th Council Meeting 2020 (May 18, 2020)
Despite the dangerous pandemic, Pirate party cannot stop working. We need to move forward. We hereby invite you to the upcoming on-line Council…
European Parliament strongly recommends any software developed by and for the EU institutions to be made publicly available under Free and Open Source Software licence (May 15, 2020)
Brussels, 15/5/2020 – Yesterday, in plenary, the European Parliament endorsed a number of budgetary discharge reports, which include Pirate amendments urging EU institutions to predominantly use Open Source solutions. This success happened despite the…
Patrick Breyer: Stop biometric mass surveillance now! (May 14, 2020)
Pirate Party and Greens/EFA Member of the European Parliament Patrick Breyer supports today’s call by 44 civil society organisations on EU bodies and EU Member…
Lessons learned from the Avia law (May 13, 2020)
MEP Marcel Kolaja: While the European Union is about to start the process leading to the adoption of the Digital Services Act, a.k.a.…
ANTI-CORRUPTION INTERGROUP: PREVENT CORRUPTION IN CORONA EMERGENCY FUNDS (May 12, 2020)
EU emergency funds have more risk of being misused, as parliamentary scrutiny and normal budgetary control measures are being abolished to ease their…
EPP is trying to destroy Pirates’ efforts to use Free Open Source Software (May 12, 2020)
We, Pirates, want to inform you that the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament is trying to destroy Pirates’ efforts to…
Streaming quality reduction (May 10, 2020)
MEP MARCEL KOLAJA: Lockdown, social distancing, work from home, and on-line schooling resulted in an increased demand for Internet connectivity during the coronavirus…