TPP Almost Ready but Stalled in Hawaii, Leaks Tell us More August 10, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News The White House expected a finalization of the trade negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during the meeting in Hawaii (ending 31 July 2015). However there were disagreements over “automobiles, dairy, and biologic drug patent provisions” that stalled the talks. The informal talks and deals will continue but it seems the next official meeting will take place first in November. Knowledge Ecology International made a press release with the latest known version of the “Intellectual Property [Rights] Chapter from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations”. This …

The New PPI Board is Starting to Get Active August 3, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News The PPI board just held their third meeting and have started their work (first two meeting were mostly about handing over responsibilities and getting organized).  1) Since the members of the new board are spread around the world it is sometimes hard to find suitable times for all of them to attend. The board needed to facilitate their decision making and therefore decided to change the rules of procedure to allow votes cast by the board in their Loomio group to be counted towards the regular board meetings. The discussions by the board are transparent …

The First PPEU Council Meeting: Moving Right Along July 20, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Conference This past weekend the PPEU meeting took place in Brussels. This was the first ordinary Council Meeting (General Assembly) of the organization and the main topic was the election of the new board. The founding conference for the European Pirates happened in March last year, where the first chair of the Pirate Party Europe was elected. One of the first agenda items for the Council was the question about membership fees. According to the statutes, only members that had paid their fees (either 2014 or 2015 fees) would remain members and …