[pp.int.general] Helsinki Conference: Inner democracy and decision-making procedures for PPI

[Carlos Ayala Vargas]

To solve once and for all any kind of controversy concerning those 
topics, and also thinking in the future, I've added both topics to be 
discussed in Helsinki.

http://wiki.piraattipuolue.fi/Helsinki_conference#Program

An example of how important this can be, may be the following one:

- an Europarliament Group (e.g., EPP-ED or ESP) makes an offer consisting in
* that group voting an author's rights reform shortening commercial 
rights term to the highest value between life and 50 years (i.e., if I 
publish an intellectual work and I die 30 years after that, commercial 
rights would last 50 years; if I die 60 years after that, commercial 
rights would last 60 years)
* PPI voting a labour market reform encouraged by that EP Group (think, 
e.g., of the 60-hour per week reform)

Some questions then would arise:

- regardless of how many EU pirate parties nail EP seats, who would 
decide whether to accept, deny or renegotiate that offer?
* would be a joint decision ...
* ... or each pirate parties' MEPs would only follow their national 
parties command?

- specially considering that, in case of partial or total agreement, the 
EP Group would claim to have reached an agreement with PPI
* would any pirate party -specially if being the only pirate party with 
MEPs- claim to act on behalf of PPI ...
* ... or would claim to act on behalf of PPI only with a previous PPI 
agreement, claiming otherwise to act on behalf of the national party 
where those MEPs belong?

What I mean, and what I seek to be discussed in Helsinki, is what do we 
expect from PPI when making joint actions -as I believe PPI is meant to 
be a collaborative organization; otherwise, we would merely be national 
parties which share some goals and which eventually cooperate sometimes, 
never being able to create durable, working task groups-. Regards,


                                                                                          
Carlos Ayala
                                                                                          
( Aiarakoa )

                                                                    
Partido Pirata National Board's Chairman