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Icelandic Pirates Found a Youth Wing | PirateTimes

Icelandic Pirates Found a Youth Wing August 20, 2013 · by Koen De Voegt · in Pirate Party News The Icelandic Pirates are at it again. Their party was only founded officially on 24 November 2012. Less than half a year later they became the first Pirate Party to get people elected in a national parliament. Now the Pirates in Iceland are taking a new step in growing their organisation. On Sunday the 18th of August 2013 they officially founded their youth organisation. The founding of a youth pirate party comes only about a week after the creation of a European umbrella organisation for Pirate youth wings. This new youth …

Local elections in Croatia | PirateTimes

Local elections in Croatia May 17, 2013 · by Koen De Voegt · in Europe, Pirate Party News It’s hard work being a Pirate in Croatia. Only a month after the campaign for the EU elections, the campaign is on again in this former Yugoslav republic. This time it are the local and regional elections. The Pirate Party of Croatia (Piratska Stranka) will compete in 6 cities or towns. These are Zagreb, Rijeka, Varazdin, Belje, Samobor and Petrinje. They will also compete in one region, Primorsko-goranska. Elections will be held on Sunday 19th of May. In the following sections we will introduce some of the top candidates: Rijeka – top …

PPEU | PirateTimes – Part 3

PPEU: The Zagreb Summit March 22, 2013 · by Koen De Voegt · in Conference During the weekend of the 16 and 17 March 2013 the Pirate Party of Croatia (PP-HR) hosted a European Pirate conference. This is part of a process started on 15 April 2012 during the Pirate Parties International (PPI) annual General Assembly. The goal is to have a common election program and to coordinate cooperation between the different national Pirate Parties and their MEPs. The Swedish Pirates say no to the EUDemocrats March 9, 2013 · by Loïc · in Pirate Party News During the latest PP-EU conference, held in Paris, the Swedish PiratPartiet delegate Mattias …

PPEU: The Zagreb Summit | PirateTimes

PPEU: The Zagreb Summit March 22, 2013 · by Koen De Voegt · in Conference During the weekend of the 16 and 17  March 2013 the Pirate Party of Croatia (PP-HR) hosted a European Pirate conference. This is part of a process started on  15 April  2012 during the Pirate Parties International (PPI) annual General Assembly. The goal is to have a common election program and to coordinate cooperation between the different national Pirate Parties and their MEPs. This joined ambition was formulated in the “Prague Declaration“.  Previous meetings where held in Potsdam (July), Barcelona (September), Rome (November), Manchester (December) and Paris (February). The next one will be held in Kiev in May. The  …

Happy Public Domain Day! | PirateTimes

Happy Public Domain Day! January 5, 2013 · by Koen De Voegt · in Pirate Topic On the first of  January, the beginning of the new year is not the only thing to celebrate. The first of January is also known as “Public Domain Day“. Due to the expiration of copyright protection terms on works produced by authors who died several decades earlier, thousands of works enter the public domain on this date. Although we Pirates think the current terms of copyright protection are exuberant, it’s still worth taking a look a some of these old works that now become a freely available part of our shared world heritage. Some …

Restructuring the Belgian Pirate Party | PirateTimes

Restructuring the Belgian Pirate Party December 27, 2012 · by Koen De Voegt · in General Assembly On Saturday 22 December 2012 members of the Belgian Pirate Party met up for an extraordinary general assembly (EGA). This gathering was held in the Wallonian student city of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve. This location was a symbolic choice, during the communal elections of 14 October the party reached 5.16%, its best result ever. Only 14 votes shy of our first city councillor. The goal of this meeting was to expand the structure of the party. Since it’s founding in 2009, the Belgian Pirate Party only functioned on the basis of some simple principles. The strong …

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