<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>By the end of february, we had to give last-minute answers to the EC consultation on creative contents for the common market. Fortunately, some of those answers reached the EC in time:<br><br><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/avpolicy/docs/other_actions/col_2008/ngo/parti_pirate_fr.pdf"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Parti Pirate (French)</span></a><br><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/avpolicy/docs/other_actions/col_2008/ngo/pirata_en.pdf"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PIRATA (English)</span></a><br><br>Will we give this time a joint answer? Will we appear this time as a joint team? I think strength for European Election will come from unity, from synergical working, from citizens seeing us -in a EU and worldwide context; because in a national context we may have our own ideas (as long as those
ideas remain compatible with the common ones, common ones which would be the ones declared in the manifesto)- as a unique international movement formed by thousands and thousands of folks with common ideas, instead of separate national parties working on their own.<br><br>Now you think on the media impact of this two distinct scenarios:<br><br>- scenario a: 2-3 PDF-version answers from 2-3 several national pirate parties<br>- scenario b: one single PDF-version answer from Pirate Party International<br><br>which one would be the most covered one? With one year remaining until European Election, it may result handy that mass media start talking about us as a whole which give common answers to common challenges. So how are we gonna do this? Pozimski -Deutsches Piratenpartei- suggested me to review the wiki page of pirate parties' international proxies-; nowadays I have -with the recent offer from Florian Lauté (Parti Pirate de France)- up to six several
proxies -including myself- ... not enough. How are we gonna do this? Let's gonna organize ourselves now, before summer, to be able to start unofficially campaigning after summer.<br><br>And remember, it's not only the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/levy_reform/index_en.htm#stakeholder"><span style="font-weight: bold;">levies consultation</span></a> -which has <span style="font-weight: bold;">to be answered</span> emailing to <a href="mailto:markt-d1@ec.europa.eu">this address</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">before April 18 2008</span>-, but also:<br><br>* <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=RFIDRec"><span style="font-weight: bold;">RFID</span></a>: until <span style="font-weight: bold;">April 25 2008</span><br>* <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/article_4850_en.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">VAT</span></a> -it may become interesting for subjects like internet connections,
cultural works, etc-: until <span style="font-weight: bold;">May 12 2008</span><br><br>I'm sure Uppsala is a very nice place to make tourism in summer, and if PIRATA economy allows to, PIRATA representatives will be there ... but not to make <span style="font-style: italic;">tourism</span> -it will be a mere <span style="font-style: italic;">touristic</span> trip if we repeat Vienna & Berlin proposals (about IT Group, about Manifesto, about joint PR's duties, etc) without real results-; if we want to turn Uppsala into a productive and resolutive PPI meeting, we previously have to develop hardworking manners during the following three months. Do you agree?
Regards<br><br><br> Carlos
Ayala<br> ( Aiarakoa )<br><br> Partido Pirata National Board's Chairman<br></div></div><br>
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