Peksa: Luxembourg aims to “legalize” the personal use of cannabis (October 28, 2021)
Luxembourg, Brussels, 27/10/2021 – Luxembourg will become the first country in Europe with a law legalizing homegrowing and consumption of cannabis. It remains…
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Peksa: Pandora Papers showed that the European Union failed in tackling public funds (October 21, 2021)
Strasbourg, 21/10/2021 – The European Pirates supported today’s Pandora Papers resolution which calls on the European Commission to review the data exposed in…
“Europe’s digital future? Free and Open Source Software,” says MEP Kolaja (October 21, 2021)
Strasbourg, 21/10/2021 – The European Pirates agree to increase the budget of the European Union for the year 2022 compared to the Commission’s…
Breakthrough: Parliament calls for ban of biometric mass surveillance (October 6, 2021)
Strasbourg, 06/10/2021 – Last night, the European Parliament adopted a report on the use of Artificial Intelligence in criminal law and its use…
Pirates: Facebook outage could have been avoided (October 5, 2021)
Brussels/Strasbourg, 05/10/2021 – Pirate MEPs agreed that yesterday’s outage of Facebook and other networks could have been avoided. The solution would have been…
Pandora Papers: Pirate MEPs call for investigation of Babiš’s illegal activities (October 4, 2021)
Strasbourg, 04/10/2021 – The Pandora Papers are the most wide-ranging leaked documentation of tax evasion and money laundering in history.[1] Documents obtained by…
Peksa: New commission will bring better enforcement of ethics rules (September 17, 2021)
Strasbourg 17/09/2021 – The European Parliament has agreed on the need for a new independent ethics body. Pirate Party MEP Mikuláš Peksa was…
Pirates: VDL sugarcoats key issues in SOTEU speech (September 15, 2021)
Strasbourg, 15/09/2021 – In today’s speech [1], Commission President Ursula von der Leyen failed to give a complete picture of the state of…
Digital Covid Certificate: Parliament wants discrimination and privacy concerns addressed (April 30, 2021)
Brussels, 29/04/2021 – The European Parliament finalised its official position on the „EU Covid-19 Certificate”, which aims at ensuring freedom of movement within…
Mandatory Transparency Register for lobbying in EU institutions doesn’t live up to its name (April 29, 2021)
Brussels, 28/04/2021 – Yesterday evening, the European Parliament endorsed an Interinstitutional Agreement for a Mandatory Transparency Register, aiming at implementing stricter rules for…