WANTED: Copywriter and researcher (April 21, 2021)
Mikuláš Peksa, Pirate Member of the European Parliament, is looking for a contractor to help with research and copywriting for a project on…
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Open letter: 39 MEPs join Pirate call to ban mass surveillance (April 19, 2021)
In a cross-party letter, 39 Members of the European Parliament co-signed Pirate MEP Patrick Breyer’s call on the European Commission to revise the…
European technology will not serve dictators, decided the European Parliament (April 6, 2021)
Brussels, 26 March 2021 – Authoritarian regimes will no longer be able to use modern European technologies to oppress their citizens. The European…
Digital vaccination passport: Pirates see room for improvement (March 18, 2021)
Brussels, 17/03/2021– The Pirates Delegation in the European Parliament only partially approves the Commission’s legislative proposal for the “Digital Green Certificate”. While there…
EU ministers want EU-wide data retention. Breyer: Never again surveillance state! (March 16, 2021)
Brussels, 12/03/2021 – The great majority of EU justice ministers yesterday once again called a new Europe-wide collection of traffic and location data…
World Day against Cyber Censorship: Don‘t let machines decide on our knowledge and thinking! (March 16, 2021)
Brussels, 12/03/2021 – The Internet used to be considered a place of free expression, allowing for unhindered communication across national borders. Today, these…
The European Union is the new “LGBTIQ Freedom Zone” (March 12, 2021)
Brussels, 11 March 2021 – According to the new resolution lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, intersex and queer people are to have freedom in…
European Parliament stays non-transparent. Kolaja calls for roll-call votes (March 11, 2021)
Brussels, 10 March 2021 – Voting in the committees of the European Parliament stays anonymous. Despite the long-term pressure from its Vice-President Marcel Kolaja,…
Pirates: Commission must rethink vision on COVID-19 vaccine passport (March 9, 2021)
The Commission’s plan to introduce a “Digital Green Pass” for EU citizens threatens fundamental rights in several respects. While the European Pirates in…
Transparency pays off I: European databases expose Luxembourgish evasion (March 5, 2021)
Mikuláš Peksa: The number of tax evasion scandals that we have had to process in the last decade is almost astonishing. We have…