<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De:</span></b> Carlos Ayala <aiarakoa@yahoo.es><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>Enviado:</span></b> viernes, 14 de noviembre, 2008 13:43:03<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>De:</span></b> Jens Seipenbusch <seipenbusch@web.de><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enviado:</span></b> viernes, 14 de noviembre, 2008 12:12:37<b><span style="font-weight:
bold;"></span></b><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">> > This severly challenges the calculation of 19by5 which we made in Uppsala, where i wasnt sure,<br>> > if that was the fact or not<br>> It's not the fact anymore.<br>><br>> Few months ago it was changed to eliminate 1 or 2 of the current 7 parliamentary groups, so<br>> formerly it was a fifth (5 out of 25) and now it's a fourth (7 out of 27) the required amount of<br>> countries where a party/party coalition must have representatives in order to create a group; also, > required MPs are increased from 19 to 25. These changes were rejected by all minoritary groups (5<br>> out of 7), <span style="font-style: italic;">only</span>
being supported by EPP-ED and PES -I say <span style="font-style: italic;">only</span> with italic as they together have the<br>> vast majority of MEPs-; thus, the changes were passed by the European Parliament.<br><br>I've updated <a href="http://int.piratenpartei.de/European_pirate_party#political_groups_.28fractions.29">the wiki page</a> with the current status:<br><br>- indicating that, while 19:5 was applied for a 25 Member States UE (UE-25), now
that we are UE-27 and until June 2009, one fifth of Member States and
2'5 % of MEPs means 6 Member States and 20 MEPs<br>
<br>- indicating the rules for next term (2009-2014): 25 MEPs (3'33 %) from 7 different Member States (one fourth)<br><br>Regards,<br><br><br> Carlos
Ayala<br> ( Aiarakoa )<br><br> Partido Pirata National Board's Chairman<br></div></div></div><br>
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