Job offer: Administrative assistant in Brussels
Four Pirate Members of the European Parliament are looking for a reliable assistant in their Brussels office who can help with the administrative tasks. As an Administrative assistant you will be …
Author: Patrick Breyer
Weber/Timmermans personnel package: What do you think?
The EU Parliament is expected to vote on the next President of the EU Parliament on Wednesday. Manfred Weber (CSU), the lead candidate of the Conservatives in the EU Elections 2019, …
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Pirate MEPs: Puigdemont shall not be prevented from the right to exercise his mandate
Brussels, 14/6/2019 – After the newly elected Pirate MEPs established their delegation of European Pirates on Wednesday, 12th June, they met the newly elected spanish MEP Carles Puigdemont. He announced his …
The data retention zombie is back
The justice ministers of the European Union are undertaking a new attempt for EU-wide communications data retention. At today’s Council of Justice Ministers, EU ministers of justice want to instruct …
German Pirates enter the European Parliament | European Interest [extern]
Thanks to the German electoral system minor political parties are allowed to send representatives in the European Parliament.
The Pirate Party (Piratenpartei Deutschland), which was founded in September 2006, won one …
Automated censorship in the digital space | Taurillon [extern]
“Error-prone filter algorithms and levies on links threaten to destroy our internet and our right to the digital freedom of expression,” says Dr. Patrick Breyer, lawyer and the German Pirate Party’s …
Here come the European Parliament tech hawks | Politico [extern]
Heads up, Silicon Valley. The new generation of lawmakers about to enter the European Parliament wants to come down hard on big tech companies. Though the election is still a month …
Information on the German Pirate Party’s list of candidates for the 2019 European Parliament election [updated 24/03/2021]
Automated censorship in the digital space | thenewfederalist.eu [extern]
On 23 March, shortly before the vote on the EU copyright reform, demonstrations against upload filters were taking place all across Europe. In this article, the organisers of the #SaveYourInternet demonstrations …
EU governments want to introduce electronic communications censorship
Germany, Great Britain and several other EU governments want to have Internet connections, e-mails and whatsapp messages filtered for illegal content. In search for “child pornography” and “terrorist content”, Internet providers, …
