Pirate Parties International

Short description: Non-profit, non-governmental political group

Pirate Parties International

Abbreviation| PPI
Formation| 18 April 2010 (2010-04-18)
Type| International nongovernmental organisation
Legal status| Association
Purpose| Political
Headquarters| Brussels, Belgium

Membership

| Pirate parties and affiliated associations

Chairperson

| Grégory Engels

Vice-Chairperson

| Keith L. Goldstein

General Secretary

| TBD

Treasurer

| TBD

Main organ

| General Assembly
Website| www.pp-international.net

Elected in EU Parliament

Elected nationally

Elected locally

Registered for elections

Registered in some states

Unregistered but active

Status unknown

Ordinary members

Observer members

Pirate Parties International (PPI) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.[1] Formed in 2010, it serves as a worldwide organization for Pirate Parties, currently representing 39 members from 36 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australasia. The Pirate Parties are political incarnations of the freedom of expression movement, trying to achieve their goals by the means of the established political system rather than just through activism. In 2017 PPI had been granted special consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Aims
* 2 History
* 2.1 Uppsala Declaration
* 2.2 Prague Declaration
* 2.3 Member Parties
* 2.3.1 Africa
* 2.3.2 Asia and the Pacific
* 2.3.3 Americas
* 2.3.4 Europe
* 2.4 Resignations
* 3 Structure
* 4 PPI Conferences
* 5 Pirate Party movement worldwide
* 6 References
* 7 External links

## Aims

The PPI statutes[3] give its purposes as:

> to help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain communication and co-operation between pirate parties around the world.

The PPI advocate on the international level for the promotion of the goals. Its members share such as protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the digital age, consumer and authors rights-oriented reform of copyright and related rights, support of information privacy, transparency, and free access to information.

The name "Pirates" itself is a reappropriation of the title that was given to internet users by the representatives of the music and film industry and does not refer to any illegal activity.

## History

The first Pirate Party was the Swedish Piratpartiet, founded on 1 January 2006. Other parties and groups were formed in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain. In 2007, representatives of these parties met in Vienna, Austria to form an alliance and plan for the 2009 European Parliament elections.[4] Further conferences were held in 2008 in Berlin and Uppsala, the latter leading to the "Uppsala Declaration" of a basic platform for the elections.[5]

In 2009, the original Pirate Party won 7.1% of the vote[6] in Sweden's European Parliament elections and won two of Sweden's twenty MEP seats, inspired by a surge in membership following the trial and conviction of three members of the ideologically aligned Pirate Bay a year earlier.[7]

On 18 April 2010, the Pirate Parties International was formally founded in Brussels at the PPI Conference from April 16 to 18.[1]

### Uppsala Declaration

At the 2009 conference of Pirate Parties International in Uppsala (Sweden), European Pirate parties agreed on a common declaration of the parties' goals for the upcoming election of the European Parliament.[8][9] Central issues of the declaration are:

* reform of copyright, exemption of non-commercial activity from copyright regulation, reduction of the duration of copyright protections; banning of DRM technologies, opposition to media or hardware levies;
* reform of patent law, particularly stating that patents on life (including patents on seeds and genes) and software should not be allowed;
* strengthening civil rights, transparent government, speedy and fair trial, freedom of speech, and expansion of the right to anonymity in communication.

### Prague Declaration

At the conference of Pirate Parties International in Prague (Czech Republic) in 2012, European Pirate parties agreed to run in the elections to the European Parliament in the year 2014 with a common program as well as establish a European political party (European Pirate Party, PPEU). The declaration[10] has been followed by conferences in Potsdam and Barcelona to work on the structure of the legal body to come and the statutes for it.

### Member Parties

As of July 2 2022, PPI has the following 31[11] Ordinary members with the voting power of 28 (parties sharing territory split the vote among themselves):

#### Africa

1. Pirate Party of Tunisia

#### Asia and the Pacific

1. Pirate Party of New Zealand (1/2 vote; vote shared with IP New Zealand)
2. Internet Party New Zealand (1/2 vote; vote shared with PP New Zealand)

#### Americas

1. Pirate Party of Brazil
2. Pirate Party of Chile
3. United States Pirate Party
4. Pirate Party of Venezuela

#### Europe

1. Pirate Party of Austria
2. Pirate Party of Belgium
3. Template:Country data CAT Pirate Party of Catalonia
4. Czech Pirate Party
5. Estonian Pirate Party
6. Pirate Party of France
7. Pirate Party Germany
8. Pirate Party of Greece
9. Pirate Party of Hungary
10. Pirate Party of Israel
11. Italian Pirate Party
12. Pirate Party Luxembourg
13. Pirate Party of Netherlands
14. Pirate Party of Norway
15. Polish Pirate Party
16. Portuguese Pirate Party
17. Pirate Party of Russia
18. Pirate Party of Serbia
19. Pirate Party of Slovakia (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia)
20. Pirate Party - Slovakia (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Slovakia)
21. Pirate Party Switzerland
22. Pirate Party of Turkey (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Turkey)
23. Pirate Party Turkey (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Turkey)
24. Ukrainian Pirate Community

### Resignations

In February 2015, Pirate Party Australia resigned from PPI due to serious disagreement with the direction and management of the organization.[12] In the same month, Pirate Party UK also resigned[13] and in March the Belgian Pirate Party suspended its membership within PPI.[14]

On 20 April 2015, the Pirate Party of Iceland voted overwhelmingly to leave PPI.[15] A member of the executive, Arnaldur Sigurðarson, reported a 96.56% vote in favor of leaving, adding: "PPI has been pretty much useless when it comes to its objectives which should be to encourage international cooperation between Pirate Parties."

In May 2015, the Pirate Party of Sweden resolved with a significant majority to leave PPI, canceling their observer status.[16]

In July 2016, the Pirate Party of Canada officially withdrew from Pirate Parties International citing ongoing troubles with the organization as well as a failure to adequately provide any accomplishments over its history.[citation needed]

In December 2023, Florie Marie resigned from her role as chairperson of the Pirate Parties International after less than one year.[17]

## Structure

The PPI is governed by a board, formerly led by two co-chairs,[18] and since the Warsaw conference of 2015 by a chair and a vice-chair. Policy, governance, and applications for membership are the responsibility of the PPI General Assembly which must convene at least once per year.[19] By the current rules, board members are elected for a two-year term, half of the board being elected every year. Since the 2019 General Assembly, the Board has 9 members (previously 7). General Secretary and Treasurer positions are filled by the board by its members.

PPI Board  No.  | Term  | Co-Chairs (chair & vice-chair from 2015 onwards)  | General Secretary  | Treasurer  | Member of the board  | Alternates

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1st Board  | IV/2010

III/2011

|  Grégory Engels,

Jerry Weyer

|  Joachim Mönch  |  Nicolas Sahlqvist  |

Aleksandar Blagojevic,
Jakub Michálek,
Bogomil Shopov

| –
2nd Board  | III/2011

IV/2012

|  Samir Allioui,

Marcel Kolaja
(receded)

|  Lola Voronina  |  Pat Mächler  |

Finlay Archibald
(receded),
Paul da Silva
(receded),
Thomas Gaul

| –
3rd Board  | IV/2012

IV/2013

|  Grégory Engels,

Lola Voronina

|  Travis McCrea  |  Ed Geraghty  |

Nuno Cardoso,
Jelena Jovanović,
Denis Simonet

Brendan Molloy,
Thomas Gaul,
Alessandra Minoni,
Andrew Norton
(receded)

4th Board  | IV/2013

IV/2014

|  Grégory Engels,

Vojtěch Pikal

|  Thomas Gaul  |  Marc Tholl  |

Nuno Cardoso,
Azat Gabrakhmanov,
Denis Simonet

Jelena Jovanović,
Paul Bossu,
Radosław Pietroń,
Yasin Aydın

5th Board  | IV/2014

VII/2015

|  Maša Čorak,

Koen de Voegt

|  Thomas Gaul  |  Sebastian Krone  |

Grégory Engels,
Anders Kleppe,
Stathis Leivaditis

Marco Confalonieri,
Yasin Aydın,
Min Chiaki,
Chemseddine Ben Jemaa

6th Board  | VII/2015

VII/2016

|  Andrew Reitemeyer (chair)

Patrick Schiffer (vice-chair)

|  Henrique Peer  |  Karla Medrano  |

Min Chiaki,
Chemseddine Ben Jemaa,
Dr. Richard Hill,

Anders Kleppe,
Nikolay Voronov,
Koen De Voegt,
Grégory Engels

7th Board  | VII/2016

XI/2017

|  Guillaume Saouli (chair)

Bailey Lamon (vice-chair)

|  Thomas Gaul  |  Keith L. Goldstein  |

Andrew Reitemeyer,
Raymond Johansen,
Koen De Voegt

Nikolay Voronov,
Patrick Schiffer,
Adam Wolf,
Grégory Engels

8th Board  | XI/2017

XI/2018

|  Guillaume Saouli (chair)

Bailey Lamon (vice-chair)

|  Keith L. Goldstein  |  Thomas Gaul  |

Koen De Voegt,
Raymond Johansen,
Nikolay Voronov

Adam Wolf,
Etienne Evellin,
Daniel Dantas Prazeres,
Grégory Engels

9th Board  | XI/2018

XII/2019

|  Guillaume Saouli (chair)

Bailey Lamon (vice-chair)

|  Keith L. Goldstein  |  Michal Gill  |

Etienne Evellin,
Raymond Johansen,
Ladislav Koubek

Daniel Dantas Prazeres,
Grégory Engels,
Kitty Hundal,
Cédric Levieux

10th Board  | XII/2019

XII/2020

|  Bailey Lamon (chair)

Grégory Engels (vice-chair)

|  Keith L. Goldstein  |  Daniel Dantas Prazeres  |

Cédric Levieux,
Thomas Gaul,
Michal Gill,
Linda B. Tørklep,
Giuseppe Calandra

Sebastian Krone,
Carlos Polo,
Svein Mork Dahl,
Cristina Diana Bargu[20]

11th Board  | XII/2020

I/2022

|  Bailey Lamon (chair)

Grégory Engels (vice-chair)

|  Michal Gill  |  Sebastian Krone  |

Keith L. Goldstein,
Carlos Polo,
Manuel Caicedo,
Template:Country data CAT Dario Castane,
Daniel Dantas Prazeres

Svein Mork Dahl,
Thomas Gaul,
Ji Yong Dijkhuis

12th Board  | since

I/2022

|  Bailey Lamon (chair)

Grégory Engels (vice-chair)

|  Michal Gill  |  Sebastian Krone  |

Keith L. Goldstein,
Carlos Polo,
Manuel Caicedo,
Template:Country data CAT Dario Castane,
Alexander Isavnin,
Mauricio Vargas

Ji Yong Dijkhuis
Veronika Murzynová
Adam Wolf
Sebastian Krone

13th Board  | since I/2023  |  Florie Marie (chair)

Grégory Engels (vice-chair)

| TBD  | TBD  |  Keith L. Goldstein
Michael Toledo
Bailey Lamon

Michal Gill
Julian Häffner
Alexander Isavnin
Mauricio Vargas

|  Mia Utz
Adam Wolf
Sebastian Krone
Raman Ojha
Carlos Polo

All board meetings are recorded and the minutes are published here: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Board/Board_Meetings.

## PPI Conferences

International Pirate Party Meetings  Name  | Date of Meeting  | Location  | Host Party

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International Conference 2007  | 8-10/6/2007  | Vienna, Austria  |
International Conference 1/2008  | 26-27/1/2008  | Berlin, Germany  |
International Conference 2/2008  | 27-29/6/2008  | Uppsala, Sweden  |
PPI Conference 2010 (Founding Conference)  | 16-18/4/2010  | Brussels, Belgium  | Pirate Party Belgium
PPI Conference 2011  | 12-13/3/2011  | Friedrichshafen, Germany  | Pirate Party Germany
PPI Conference 2012  | 14-15/4/2012  | Prague, Czech Republic  | Czech Pirate Party
Pirate Summer Conference  | 9-10/6/2012  | Aarau, Switzerland  | Pirate Party Aargau
PPI Conference 2013  | 20-21/4/2013  | Kazan, Russia  | Pirate Party of Russia
PPI Conference 2014  | 12-13/4/2014  | Paris, France, on OpenSpace Conference  | Pirate Party of France
PPI Conference 2015  | 4-5/7/2015  | Warsaw, Poland, on OpenSpace Conference  | Pirate Party of Poland
PPI Conference 2016  | 23-24/7/2016  | Berlin, Germany  | Pirate Party of Berlin
PPI Conference 2017  | 25-23/11/2017  | Geneva, Switzerland  | Pirate Party of Switzerland
PPI Conference 2018  | 3-4/11/2018, online continuation on 10/11/2018  | Munich, Germany  | Pirate Party Germany, Pirate Party Bavaria
PPI Conference 2019  | 7-8/12/2019  | online  | By video conference only
PPI Conference 2020 (w/out board election)  | 30/5/2020  | online  | By video conference only
PPI General Assembly 2020  | 6/12/2020  | online  | By video conference only
PPI General Assembly 2021 (w/out board election)  | 3/7/2021  | online  | By video conference only
PPI General Assembly 2022  | 8/1/2022  | online  | By video conference only
PPI General Assembly 2022 (w/out board election)  | 2/7/2022  | online  | By video conference only
PPI General Assembly  | 28/1/2023  | online  | By video conference only

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## Pirate Party movement worldwide

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Pirate International is born". Presseurop. 2010-04-20. http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/234921-pirate-international-born.
2. ↑ "Non-Governmental Organizations Committee Recommends Economic and Social Council Grant Special Status to 14 Entities, Postpones Action on 53 Others | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/ecosoc6843.doc.htm.
3. ↑ "Pirate Parties International Statutes". Pirate Parties International. 2010-04-18. http://int.piratenpartei.de/wiki/images/a/a6/Statutes_of_the_Pirate_Parties_International.pdf.
4. ↑ Ben Jones (2007-06-09). "Pirates Gather at First International Pirate Party Conference". TorrentFreak. http://torrentfreak.com/pirates-gather-at-first-international-pirate-party-conference/.
5. ↑ "The Uppsala Declaration or European Pirate Parties Declaration of a basic platform for the European Parliamentary Election of 2009". Piratpartiet. 2008-07-02. http://www.piratpartiet.se/nyheter/european_pirate_platform_2009.
6. ↑ "Swedish pirates capture EU seat". BBC News. BBC. 2008-06-08. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8089102.stm.
7. ↑ Will Smale (2010-04-27). "Election: Can Pirate Party UK emulate Sweden success?". BBC News. BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8644834.stm.
8. ↑ "European Pirate Platform 2009". Pirate Party (Sweden). http://www.piratpartiet.se/nyheter/european_pirate_platform_2009.
9. ↑ "Uppsala-Deklaration" (in de, en). Piratenwiki. Pirate Party Germany. 2010-07-29. http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Uppsala-Deklaration.
10. ↑ The Prague Declaration
11. ↑ "PPI Member Parties". PPI. 2022-07-04. https://pp-international.net/pirate-parties/.
12. ↑ "Pirate Party Australia resigns from PPI". 2015-02-11. http://lists.pirateweb.net/pipermail/pp.international.general/2015-February/015834.html.
13. ↑ "PPUK leaves PPI". 2015-02-25. https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blogs/editor/ppuk-leaves-ppi.
14. ↑ "PPBE suspends their PPI membership". 2015-03-04. http://piratetimes.net/ppbe-suspends-their-ppi-membership/.
15. ↑ "Icelandic Pirates: PPIS Vote to Leave PPI and Birgitta only Politician to increase in Trust". 2015-04-20. http://piratetimes.net/icelandic-pirates-ppis-vote-to-leave-ppi-and-birgitta-only-politician-to-increase-in-trust/.
16. ↑ "Motion P01: Proposition ang. att lämna observatörsmedlemskapet i PPI". 2015-05-10. https://mote.piratpartiet.se/showthread.php?t=40246.
17. ↑ "Discours : Ma démission de la présidence du Parti Pirate International / My resign of the presidency of the International Pirate Parties – Bienvenue par minou" (in fr-FR). https://floriemarie.fr/index.php/2023/12/09/discours-ma-demission-de-la-presidence-du-parti-pirate-international-my-resign-of-the-presidency-of-the-international-pirate-parties/.
18. ↑ Pirate Parties International Statutes, Article XIII.
19. ↑ Pirate Parties International Statutes, Articles IX - XI.
20. ↑ "Resigned on 22nd of February 2020". https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Board.
21. ↑ "PPI General Assembly - PPI". https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_General_Assembly.

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