Last sunday, the Pirate Party Germany reached another milestone. With 7.8 percent of the vote, 20 pirates are entering the parliament of Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). The Pirate Party is now present in four of Germany’s 16 states, having scored well above 5 percent in every election since the Berlin elections in [...]
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2000 gather for Pirate Party Germany national assembly
Last month, the northern German town of Neumünster saw well over 1500 pirates, as well as hundreds of press representatives and guests gather for the Pirate Party Germany’s national assembly, making it the largest gathering in the history of the party. Since entering the Berlin state parliament in late 2011, the Pirate Party Germany (PP-DE) [...]
What is the purpose of our network security agency?
I am full member of the ITRE (industry, research, energy, formerly also transport but transport is currently in its own committee TRAN) and therefore have voting duty every time there are votes. The objects of my legislative prowess yesterday were the amendments for the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) report (see parliament dossier [...]
Ungaria și Uniunea Europeană
CC-BY: Epaminondas Koutsoukis
23/1 2012 kl 12:39
Demokrati, English, Europeisk politik, Inre hot, Piratfrågor, Telekommunikation
This is an essay written by yours truly in Romanian about Hungary, to commemorate the debates in the European Parliament and international media of last week. It was actually originally written by me, but corrected by a native speaker who considered ”80% of the [original] text intelligible”. For Hungarian readers of this text, please see [...]
Current news about my entering the parliament
CC-BY: Epaminondas Koutsoukis
13/6 2011 kl 00:46
Demokrati, English, Europeisk politik, Personligt, Pirate issues, Piratfrågor, Piratpartiet
Short version: There are transtition protocols that need to be signed before we can be MEPs. France and the UK may have almost signed by now. Belgium and Greece have still not signed. It is uncertain whether there may be additional delays until the French national elections in april 2012. Long version : ”How does [...]
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