Organization:European Pirate Party

Short description: Association of pirate parties in Europe

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President	Mikuláš Peksa (CZ)
Founded	21 March 2014 (2014-03-21)
Headquarters	Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Ideology	Pirate politics Freedom of information Participatory democracy Pro-Europeanism
International affiliation	Pirate Parties International
European Parliament group	Greens–EFA
Colours	Black
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Website
european-pirateparty.eu

Markéta Gregorová, President of the European Pirate Party, in February 2019

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", and consists of pirate parties of European countries. The parties cooperated to run a joint campaign for the 2014 European Parliament elections.

Felix Reda – the Pirate MEP for the 2014–2019 term.

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

In November 2020, a new board was elected. Mikuláš Peksa was confirmed as a chairperson, Florie Marie (France) and Katla Hólm Vilbergs Þórhildardóttir (Iceland) were elected as chairperson. Alessandro Ciofini (Italy), Lukáš Doležal, Jan Mareš (both Czech Republic) and Mia Utz, Oliver Herzig (both Germany) were elected as ordinary members of the board.

Member parties

Country	Political party	MEPs	National MPs
Austria	Pirate Party of Austria	0 / 18	0 / 183
Czech Republic	Czech Pirate Party	3 / 21	2 / 81 (Senate) 4 / 200 (Chamber of Deputies)
Estonia	Estonian Pirate Party	0 / 7	0 / 101
Finland	Pirate Party	0 / 13	0 / 200
France	Pirate Party	0 / 74	0 / 577
Germany	Pirate Party Germany	1 / 96	0 / 735
Greece	Pirate Party of Greece	0 / 21	0 / 300
Iceland	Pirate Party	Not in the EU	6 / 63
Italy	Italian Pirate Party	0 / 73	0 / 206 (Senate) 0 / 400 (Chamber of Deputies)
Luxembourg	Pirate Party Luxembourg	0 / 6	3 / 60
Netherlands	Pirate Party	0 / 29	0 / 150
Norway	Pirate Party of Norway	Not in the EU	0 / 169
Poland	Polish Pirate Party	0 / 51	0 / 100 (Senate) 0 / 460 (Sejm)
Slovakia	Pirate Party Slovakia	0 / 14	0 / 150
Slovenia	Pirate Party of Slovenia	0 / 8	0 / 90
Spain	Pirate Confederation	0 / 54	0 / 350
Spain	Pirates of Catalonia	0 / 54	0 / 350
Sweden	Pirate Party	0 / 20	0 / 349
Switzerland	Pirate Party Switzerland	Not in the EU	0 / 200

Observer parties

Country/region	Party
Template:Country data Bavaria	Pirate Party of Bavaria
Belgium	Pirate Party of Belgium
Template:Country data Brandenburg	Pirate Party Brandenburg
Europe	Young Pirates of Europe
Europe	Pirate group in the European Parliament
Serbia	Pirate Party of Serbia
Japan	Pirate Party Japan (日本海賊党)
Template:Country data Potsdam	Pirate Party of Potsdam
World	Pirate Parties International
Hungary	Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party

Former members

Country/region	Party
Croatia	Pirate Party
Romania	Pirate Party Romania

See also

• Pirate Party
• Pirate Parties International
• Young Pirates of Europe

Literature

• Otjes, S. (2020). All on the same boat? Voting for pirate parties in comparative perspective. Politics, 40(1), 38–53. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395719833274