European Pirate Party

European Pirate Party
Founded 21 March 2014 (2014-03-21)
Headquarters Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Ideology Pirate politics
Freedom of information
Direct democracy
Civil libertarianism
International affiliation Pirate Parties International
European Parliament group The Greens–European Free Alliance
Colours Black
Website
european-pirateparty.eu
German Pirate Jens Stomber presents the PPEU at 30C3

The European Pirates (PIRATES) or European Pirate Party (PPEU) is an association of parties aspiring to be recognised as a European political party by the European Union. It was founded on 21 March 2014 at the European Parliament in Brussels in the context of a conference on "European Internet Governance and Beyond",[1] and consists of pirate parties of European countries. The parties cooperate to run a joint campaign for the 2014 European Parliament elections.[2]

The founding meeting elected Amelia Andersdotter, Swedish Member of the European Parliament for Piratpartiet, as the first chairperson.[3] The party's members elected to the European Parliament are in The Greens–European Free Alliance.[4]

European 2014 elections results

European Pirate Party got total 868,069 votes (not counting Italy) in the European Parliament election, 2014.[5]

Julia Reda – the Pirate MEP for the 2014–2019 term.
CountryElectionPartySeatsPercentageThresholdParticipationVotesNotes / Reference
 Czech Republicnational resultsCzech Pirate Party 04.78 %5%18.2%72,514Threshold challenge in court rejected[lower-alpha 1][6][7][8]
 Spainnational resultsPirate Party 00.24%none43.8%37,999
 Germanynational resultsPirate Party Germany 11.45 %[9]none[10]48.1 %[11]424,510Elected German Pirate MEP is Julia Reda (in the image on the right).[12]
 Austrianational resultsPirate Party of Austria 02.1%4%45.4%60,451As Europa Anders, a coalition with the Communist Party and others[13]
 Croatianational resultsPirate Party 00.39%??25.10%3,623
 Finlandnational resultsPirate Party 00.7%none??12,355
 Estonianational resultsEstonian Pirate Party 01.8%5%36.44%6,018
 Slovenianational resultsPirate Party of Slovenia 02.58%6%20.96%10,005
 Luxembourgnational resultsPirate Party Luxembourg 04.23%??????
 Italynational resultsItalian Pirate Party In coalition with "The Other Europe" (none of its 3 elected MEPs are Pirate Party members)
 Netherlandsnational resultsPirate Party 00.85%4%37.3%40,064
 Greecenational resultsPirate Party of Greece 00.90%3%59.97%51,673with Ecological Greens
 Polandnational resultsPolish Pirate Party 00.019%5%23.83%1,042[14][15][16]
 Swedennational resultsPirate Party 02.23%4%48.9%77,477[17]
 Belgiumnational resultsPirate Party ran in simultaneous national elections, but not in the European Parliament elections
 Francenational resultsPirate Party 00.32 %[18]5%44 %[19]39,273
European Union TotalEU-wide resultsEuropean Pirate Party 1??–42.54%868,069

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Based on Czech Pirate Party's complaint, Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic proposed to the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic to cancel the 5 percent threshold, because vote percentage is enough for one seat (out of 21 seats). The Constitutional Court rejected the challenge on 1 June 2015.

References

  1. ↑ PPEU founding & European Internet Governance and Beyond - Programme Archived 2014-03-11 at the Wayback Machine., PPEU
  2. ↑ "'Pirates' to run joint campaign in next EU elections". EUobserver. 16 April 2012.
  3. ↑ . euroelection.co.uk.
  4. ↑ "Greens - European Free Alliance". Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "PPEU results 2014 - Google Sheets". Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Piráti se do europarlamentu nedostali, podávají stížnost k Ústavnímu soudu". EuroZprávy.cz. 26 May 2014.
  7. ↑ "Soud vyhověl povolební stížnosti zelených a Pirátů na hranici 5 procent". zpravy.idnes.cz. 25 June 2014. Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic will propose to the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic to cancel the 5 percent threshold.
  8. ↑ "Ústavní soud - Projednávané plenární věci". Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  9. ↑ "Provisional result of the European Election 2014". The Federal Returning Officer. 2014-05-26. Retrieved 2014-05-26.
  10. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court. "Three-Percent Electoral Threshold in the Law Governing European Elections Unconstitutional Under the Current Legal and Factual Circumstances". Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  11. ↑ The Federal Returning Officer. "Provisional result of the European Election 2014". Website of the Federal Statistical Office. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  12. ↑ "Final result of the European Election 2014 - Distribution of seats". The Federal Returning Officer. 2014-05-26. Retrieved 2014-05-26.
  13. ↑ "Österreich - Europawahl 2014".
  14. ↑ "Results of the 2014 European elections - Results by country - Poland, electoral district no. 6 - European Parliament".
  15. ↑ "Results of the 2014 European elections - Results by country - Poland, electoral district no. 8 - European Parliament".
  16. ↑ "Results of the 2014 European elections - Results by country - Poland, electoral district no. 11 - European Parliament".
  17. ↑ "Val till Europaparlamentet - Valnatt" (in Swedish). 2014-05-26. Retrieved 2014-05-27.
  18. ↑ Parti Pirate. "Communication du Parti Pirate sur les résultats des élections européennes - Parti Pirate". Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  19. ↑ "EUROPÉENNES 2014. La grande victoire de l'abstention - Courrier international". Courrier international. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
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