[pp.int.general] The conference - what went wrong; how can we do better?

[Gregory Engels]

On 22.04.2010, at 20:59, Partidul Piratilor wrote:

> . Talking about a European PPI like a political party and make  
> comparisons with other European examples will be out of the question  
> for a simple reason: there is no Europe wide political party. Even  
> in European Parliament they have groups wich unite parties by  
> similarities, and the groups do not decide what individual parties do.


There are political parties on the european level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_political_party
They get funding from the european parliament, even
if they are not yet in the EP. thefunding has to stay on
the european level and cannot be used to finance
national member parties.
it must have in at least one quarter of the Member States, one or both  
of the following:
either it must have received at least 3% of the votes cast in each of  
those Member States at the most recent European Parliament elections.
or it must already be represented by Members, whether Members of the  
European Parliament for those states, or Members of the national  
Parliaments of those states, or Members of the regional Parliaments of  
those states, or Members of the regional Assemblies of those states.
PPI could change some of its statutes and apply for such a status when  
we have met these criteria, but this is not yet to decide. We should  
be represented in parliaments in at least 7 european countries, and i  
don't see it happen for at least 2 or 3 year at the very optimistic  
(unrealistic) forecast.

Gregory Engels
International Coordinator
Pirate Party of Germany

mobile: +49 172 853 44 91
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