<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><br></div></span></div></span></div><div><div>On 22.04.2010, at 20:59, Partidul Piratilor wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">. 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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>There are political parties on the european level. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_political_party">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_political_party</a></div><div>They get funding from the european parliament, even</div><div>if they are not yet in the EP. thefunding has to stay on </div><div>the european level and cannot be used to finance</div><div>national member parties. </div><div><ul><li>it must have in <b>at least one quarter of the Member States</b>,
one or both of the following:</li>
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<li><b>either</b> it must have <b>received at least 3% of the votes</b>
cast in each of those Member States at the most recent European
Parliament elections.</li>
<li><b>or</b> it must already be <b>represented by Members</b>, 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.</li>
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</dd></dl></div><div>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. </div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Gregory Engels</span></font></div><div>International Coordinator</div><div>Pirate Party of Germany</div><div><br></div><div>mobile: +49 172 853 44 91</div><div><a href="skype:gregory.engels">skype:gregory.engels</a></div><div><a href="jabber:dichter@jabber.piratenpartei.de">jabber:dichter@jabber.piratenpartei.de</a></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>