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) [...]
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 [...]
Pommes de t’Eire
CC-BY: Epaminondas Koutsoukis
11/6 2011 kl 13:43
Demokrati, English, Europeisk politik, Fri- och rättigheter, Internationell Politik, Miljöarbete, Pirate issues, Piratfrågor, Sociala organisationer, Svensk politik, Växtförädlingsrätter
Yesterday I briefly commented on the differences between conservatism in Sweden and on Ireland (some discussions that are no longer current in Sweden may be in Ireland and vice versa, was my argument). And when talking about Ireland, how can one not be reminded of the tragic potato monoculture incident that led up to the [...]
World is flat II
CC-BY: Epaminondas Koutsoukis
9/5 2011 kl 06:49
Demokrati, English, Funderingar, Pirate issues, Piratfrågor, Upphovsrätt
”If the public wants public culture, the public must be prepared to invest in public culture,” said James Love, as we were walking down a small street in central Barcelona after having evening tapas. It was October 2009 and we had just had a brief conversation about flatrates and blank media taxes. Our conversation was [...]
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