European_Pirate_Party

European Pirate Party

European Pirate Party

Association of pirate parties in Europe

The European Pirates (PIRATES) or European Pirate Party (PPEU) is an association of parties aspiring to be recognised as a European political party by the European Union. It was founded on 21 March 2014 at the European Parliament in Brussels in the context of a conference on "European Internet Governance and Beyond",[1] and consists of pirate parties of European countries. The parties cooperated to run a joint campaign for the 2014 European Parliament elections.[2]

Felix Reda – the Pirate MEP for the 2014–2019 term.

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Markéta Gregorová, President of the European Pirate Party, in February 2019

The founding meeting elected Amelia Andersdotter, Swedish Member of the European Parliament for Piratpartiet, as the first chairperson.[3] The party's members elected to the European Parliament are in The Greens–European Free Alliance.[4]

In November 2020, a new board was elected. Mikuláš Peksa was confirmed as a chairperson, Florie Marie (France) and Katla Hólm Vilbergs Þórhildardóttir (Iceland) were elected as chairperson. Alessandro Ciofini (Italy), Lukáš Doležal, Jan Mareš (both Czech Republic) and Mia Utz, Oliver Herzig (both Germany) were elected as ordinary members of the board.[5]

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    References

    1. [1]
      PPEU founding & European Internet Governance and Beyond – Programme Archived 11 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine, PPEU
    2. [2]
      "'Pirates' to run joint campaign in next EU elections". EUobserver. 16 April 2012.
    3. [3]
      Archived 11 April 2022 at the Wayback Machine. euroelection.co.uk.
    4. [4]
      "Greens – European Free Alliance". Retrieved 20 June 2015.
    5. [5]
      "Board". European Pirate Party. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
    6. [6]
      "Members – European Pirate Party". Retrieved 4 July 2019.
    7. [7]
      "Members". European Pirate Party - Wiki. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
    8. [8]
      "MKKP granted observing membership".

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