14-561: Youth wings Subnational Multi-national Pirate Parties International ( PPI ) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with headquarters in Brussels , Belgium . 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
28-765: Is a transnational organization of political parties having similar ideology or political orientation (e.g. communism , socialism , or Islamism ). The international works together on points of agreement to co-ordinate activity. Political internationals have increased in popularity and influence since their beginnings in the political left of 19th-century Europe, as political activists have paid more attention to developments for or against their ideological favor in other countries and continents. After World War II , other ideological movements formed their political internationals to communicate among aligned parliamentarians and legislative candidates as well as to communicate with intergovernmental and supranational organizations such as
42-534: The 2009 European Parliament elections . Further conferences were held in 2008 in Berlin and Uppsala , the latter leading to the "Uppsala Declaration" of a basic platform for the elections. In 2009, the original Pirate Party won 7.1% of the vote 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
56-590: The Belgian Pirate Party suspended its membership within PPI. On 20 April 2015, the Pirate Party of Iceland voted overwhelmingly to leave PPI. 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,
70-584: The Pirate Party of Sweden resolved with a significant majority to leave PPI, canceling their observer status. 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. In 2022, the Pirate Party of Austria withdrew from the Pirate Parties International. In December 2023, Florie Marie resigned from her role as chairperson of
84-686: The United Nations and later the European Union . Internationals also form supranational and regional branches (e.g. a European branch or an African branch) and maintain fraternal or governing relationships with sector-specific wings (e.g. youth or women's wings). Internationals usually do not have a significant role. Internationals provide the parties an opportunity for sharing of experience. The parties belonging to internationals have various organizational obligations and can be expelled for not meeting those obligations. For example, during
98-507: 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 . The PPI statutes give its purposes as: to help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain communication and co-operation between pirate parties around
112-540: The Pirate Parties International after less than one year. The PPI is governed by a board, formerly led by two co-chairs, 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. By the current rules, board members are elected for a two-year term, half of
126-2391: 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. III/2011 [REDACTED] Jerry Weyer [REDACTED] Aleksandar Blagojevic, [REDACTED] Jakub Michálek , [REDACTED] Bogomil Shopov IV/2012 [REDACTED] Marcel Kolaja (receded) [REDACTED] Finlay Archibald (receded) , [REDACTED] Paul da Silva (receded) , [REDACTED] Thomas Gaul IV/2013 [REDACTED] Lola Voronina [REDACTED] Nuno Cardoso , [REDACTED] Jelena Jovanović, [REDACTED] Denis Simonet [REDACTED] Brendan Molloy, [REDACTED] Thomas Gaul, [REDACTED] Alessandra Minoni, [REDACTED] Andrew Norton (receded) IV/2014 [REDACTED] Vojtěch Pikal [REDACTED] Nuno Cardoso, [REDACTED] Azat Gabrakhmanov, [REDACTED] Denis Simonet [REDACTED] Jelena Jovanović, [REDACTED] Paul Bossu , [REDACTED] Radosław Pietroń, [REDACTED] Yasin Aydın VII/2015 [REDACTED] Koen de Voegt [REDACTED] Grégory Engels, [REDACTED] Anders Kleppe, [REDACTED] Stathis Leivaditis [REDACTED] Marco Confalonieri, [REDACTED] Yasin Aydın, [REDACTED] Min Chiaki, [REDACTED] Chemseddine Ben Jemaa VII/2016 [REDACTED] Patrick Schiffer (vice-chair) [REDACTED] Min Chiaki, [REDACTED] Chemseddine Ben Jemaa, [REDACTED] Dr. Richard Hill, [REDACTED] Anders Kleppe, [REDACTED] Nikolay Voronov, [REDACTED] Koen De Voegt, [REDACTED] Grégory Engels XI/2017 [REDACTED] Bailey Lamon (vice-chair) [REDACTED] Andrew Reitemeyer, [REDACTED] Raymond Johansen, [REDACTED] Koen De Voegt [REDACTED] Nikolay Voronov, [REDACTED] Patrick Schiffer, [REDACTED] Adam Wolf, [REDACTED] Grégory Engels XI/2018 [REDACTED] Bailey Lamon (vice-chair) Political international A political international
140-580: The declaration are: 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 has been followed by conferences in Potsdam and Barcelona to work on
154-588: The ideologically aligned Pirate Bay a year earlier. On 18 April 2010, the Pirate Parties International was formally founded in Brussels at the PPI Conference from April 16 to 18. 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 . Central issues of
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#1732783908933168-478: The structure of the legal body to come and the statutes for it. As of July 2 2022, PPI has the following 31 Ordinary members with the voting power of 28 (parties sharing territory split the vote among themselves): In February 2015, Pirate Party Australia resigned from PPI due to serious disagreement with the direction and management of the organization. In the same month, Pirate Party UK also resigned and in March
182-408: 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
196-697: Was given to internet users by the representatives of the music and film industry and does not refer to any illegal activity. 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
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