Pirate Parties International

Non-profit, non-governmental political group

For the general concept, see Pirate Party.

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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
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Pirate Parties

Ideas

* Anti-corporate activism
* Anti-corruption
* Civil and political rights
* Civil libertarianism
* Copyright reform
* Cyber-utopianism
* Decentralized decision-making
* Direct democracy
* E-democracy
* File sharing
* Free content
* Free software movement
* Freedom of information
* Freedom of speech
* Hacker culture
* Hacktivism
* Information privacy
* Internet freedom
* Net neutrality
* Open access
* Open data
* Open government
* Open-source hardware
* Open-source software
* Participatory democracy
* Right to privacy
* Social liberalism

Parties and groups

* Australia
* Austria
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Brazil
* Canada
* Croatia
* Czechia
* Finland
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Iceland
* Israel
* Italy
* Luxembourg
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* Norway
* Poland
* Romania
* Russia
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Tunisia (Pirate Party, Tunisian Pirate Party)
* Turkey
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom
* United States of America

Youth wings

* Czechia
* Europe
* Germany
* Sweden

Subnational

* Berlin
* Catalonia
* Galicia
* Massachusetts

Multi-national

* Pirate Party of the European Union
* Pirate Parties International
* Electronic Frontier Foundation

People

* Samir Allioui
* Slim Amamou
* Amelia Andersdotter
* Carlos Ayala
* Ivan Bartoš
* Angelika Beer
* Patrick Breyer
* Sven Clement
* Grégory Engels
* Christian Engström
* Rick Falkvinge
* Stefan Flod
* Jasmin Freigang
* Markéta Gregorová
* Martin Haase
* Dirk Hillbrecht
* Florian Hufsky
* Birgitta Jónsdóttir
* Loz Kaye
* Marcel Kolaja
* Ancilla van de Leest
* Christof Leng
* Smári McCarthy
* Sebastian Nerz
* Andrew Norton
* Mikuláš Peksa
* Dirk Poot
* Felix Reda
* Herbert Rusche
* Jens Seipenbusch
* Denis Simonet
* Anna Troberg
* Lola Voronina

Related topics

* Copyleft
* Copyright abolition
* Copyright alternatives
* Criticism of copyright
* Criticism of patents
* Digital rights
* Free and open-source software
* Free-culture movement
* Information society
* Information wants to be free
* Internet censorship
* Online participation
* Philosophy of copyright
* Piracy
* Progressivism
* Public domain
* Royalty-free

* Freedom of speech portal
* Internet portal
* Law portal
* Politics portal
* Telecommunication portal

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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]

## Aims

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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

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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

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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

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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

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As of 18 June 2025, PPI lists the following 28[11] Ordinary members with the voting power of 26 (parties sharing territory split the vote among themselves):

#### Africa

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1. Pirate Party of Tunisia

#### Asia and the Pacific

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

#### Americas

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

#### Europe

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1. Pirate Party of Belgium
2. Pirate Party of Catalonia
3. Czech Pirate Party
4. Estonian Pirate Party
5. Pirate Party Germany
6. Pirate Party of Hungary
7. Pirate Party of Israel
8. Italian Pirate Party
9. Pirate Party Luxembourg
10. Pirate Party of Netherlands
11. Pirate Party of Norway
12. Polish Pirate Party
13. Portuguese Pirate Party
14. Pirate Party of Russia
15. Pirate Party of Serbia
16. Pirate Party - Slovakia
17. Pirate Party Switzerland
18. Pirate Party of Turkey (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Turkish party)
19. Pirate Party Turkey (1/2 vote; vote shared with the other Turkish party)
20. Ukrainian Pirate Community

The member party list mentions the Pirate Party of Australia both as an Ordinary member and as a former member.

### Resignations

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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 2022, the Pirate Party of Austria withdrew from the Pirate Parties International.[17]

In December 2023, Florie Marie resigned from her role as chairperson of the Pirate Parties International after less than one year.[18]

On 30 January 2024, the Pirate Party of France resigned.[19]

On 1 June 2025, the Pirate Party of Greece's 12th Congress unanimously decided to leave the European Pirate Party and the Pirate Parties International, citing ideological issues, a lack of political added value, and a lack of room for "constructive and productive political discourse".[20]

## Structure

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The PPI is governed by a board, formerly led by two co-chairs,[21] 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.[22] 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

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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[23]

11th Board  | XII/2020

I/2022

|  Bailey Lamon (chair)

Grégory Engels (vice-chair)

|  Michal Gill  |  Sebastian Krone  |

Keith L. Goldstein,
Carlos Polo,
Manuel Caicedo,
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,
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
14th Board  | since I/2024  |  Grégory Engels (chair)

Keith L. Goldstein (vice-chair)

| TBD  | TBD  |  Bailey Lamon,

Alexander Isavnin,
Sebastian Krone,
Owen C. Richardson,
Michael Toledo,
Julian Häffner,
Mia Utz

|  Raman Ojha,

Carlos Polo,
Thomas Gaul

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

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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

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See also: Pirate Party and List of Pirate Parties

## References

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1. ^ a b "The Pirate International is born". Presseurop. 20 April 2010. Archived from the original on 2 January 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2010.
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".
3. ^ "Pirate Parties International Statutes" (PDF). Pirate Parties International. 18 April 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
4. ^ Ben Jones (9 June 2007). "Pirates Gather at First International Pirate Party Conference". TorrentFreak. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
5. ^ "The Uppsala Declaration or European Pirate Parties Declaration of a basic platform for the European Parliamentary Election of 2009". Piratpartiet. 2 July 2008. Archived from the original on 8 September 2010. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
6. ^ "Swedish pirates capture EU seat". BBC News. BBC. 8 June 2008. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
7. ^ Will Smale (27 April 2010). "Election: Can Pirate Party UK emulate Sweden success?". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
8. ^ "European Pirate Platform 2009". Pirate Party (Sweden). Archived from the original on 8 September 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
9. ^ "Uppsala-Deklaration". Piratenwiki (in German and English). Pirate Party Germany. 29 July 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2012.
10. ^ The Prague Declaration
11. ^ "Pirate Parties". Pirate Parties International. Pirate Parties International. Archived from the original on 18 June 2025. Retrieved 18 June 2025.
12. ^ "Pirate Party Australia resigns from PPI". 11 February 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
13. ^ "PPUK leaves PPI". 25 February 2015. Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
14. ^ "PPBE suspends their PPI membership". 4 March 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
15. ^ "Icelandic Pirates: PPIS Vote to Leave PPI and Birgitta only Politician to increase in Trust". 20 April 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
16. ^ "Motion P01: Proposition ang. att lämna observatörsmedlemskapet i PPI". 10 May 2015. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
17. ^ desertrold (17 December 2022). "Stellungnahme zum PPI-Austritt". ppAT Basisblog (in German). Retrieved 26 March 2024.
18. ^ "Discours : Ma démission de la présidence du Parti Pirate International / My resign of the presidency of the International Pirate Parties – Bienvenue par minou" (in French). Retrieved 9 December 2023.
19. ^ "Pirate Parties". Pirate Parties International. Pirate Parties International. Archived from the original on 16 June 2025. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
20. ^ "Pirate Party of Greece 12th Congress – Decisions – Resignation from European Pirate Party and Pirate Parties International". Κόμμα Πειρατών Ελλάδας - Pirate Party of Greece. Κόμμα Πειρατών Ελλάδας - Pirate Party of Greece. Retrieved 16 June 2025.
21. ^ Pirate Parties International Statutes, Article XIII.
22. ^ Pirate Parties International Statutes, Articles IX – XI.
23. ^ "Resigned on 22nd of February 2020". Retrieved 13 March 2020.
24. ^ "PPI General Assembly – PPI". wiki.pp-international.net. Retrieved 24 July 2022.

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