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

Alex formless at gmail.com
Thu Apr 22 22:49:51 CEST 2010


Now we're talking. That sounds like a plan ;-)

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Gregory Engels
<Gregory.Engels at piratenpartei-hessen.de> wrote:
>
> 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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> jabber:dichter at jabber.piratenpartei.de
>
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