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==== Minutes ====
**19th Meeting of the PPEU Council 7.09.2025, 14:00 CEST**
Meeting is online\\
Recording: https://youtube.com/live/SJP91vutNmc\\

Members of the Board\\ 
C: Florian Roussel\\
TR: Alessandro Ciofini\\
BM: Babak\\
BM: Cal\\

International delegates\\ 

Pirati: Marco Confalieri, 1 vote\\
PP-CAT: not present\\
PP-CZ: Raman, 3 votes\\
PP-CH: not present\\
PP-DE: Lukas Küffner, Ruzena, 2 votes\\
PP-FI: not present\\
PP-FR: François, 1 vote (left 15:50), Matej Ahacic (delegated 15:50), 1 vote\\
PP-IS: not present\\
PP-IT: not present\\
PP-LU: not present\\
PP-NL: Andrel, 1 vote\\
PP-SE: Marco Confalonieri, 1 vote\\
PP-SI: not present\\
PP-SK: not present\\
YPE: Matej Ahacic, 2 votes\\
MEP delegation: not present\\

Standing invitations\\ 
Theo Giubilei, ECI Psychedelicare Representative\\
Secretary General: Mab\\

Observers:\\

Guests:\\
Bastian\\
Numero6\\
Pirates on Air\\

Meeting opened at: 14:10 CEST\\ 
Meeting chaired by: Florian\\
Secretary for this meeting:  Alessandro\\
Recording: XXX \\
Pad: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/Minutes_of_the_19th_council_meeting\\ 
RoP: https://wiki.ppeu.net/doku.php?id=ppeu:council:rules\\ 

**Agenda:**\\
1. Meeting administration\\
a) Opening of the meeting and registration of delegates\\
b) Welcoming remarks from the European Pirate Party chair\\
c) Election of meeting chairs and minute takers\\
d) Approval of the agenda\\
2. Reports\\
a) Summary of the closed and ongoing actions and activities\\
3. Organisational issues\\
a) Application of PP-RO as Ordinary Member\\
b) Opportunity of removing board members for inactivity\\
b1) Lenya Rún Taha Karim\\
b2) Marek Barbuš\\
c) Change of Statutes\\
d) Delegation to the Board of the decision on the adoption of a new logo\\
e) Discussion on the events surrounding PPGR resignation from PPEU\\
4. Other motions\\
a) ECI on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies\\
5. Closing of the meeting\\
a) AOB\\
b) Final greetings\\

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 **Minutes:**
 
1. Introduction\\
Welcome remarks from PPEU Chairperson, Florian\\
Florian is underlining how important it is to keep this meetings alive, for our organisation and our members.\\
This meeting is mostly dedicated of organisational issues, with the pleasure to have the application on PPEU\\
Chair vote:https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/vote-meeting-chair/1042
Florian has been elected chair of the meeting\\
Secretary vote: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/vote-minutes-takers/1043\\
Alessandro has been elected as Secretary of the meeting\\
Approval of the agenda
https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/vote-approval-of-the-agenda/1044\\
Agenda is approved

2. Report from SecGen\\
Florian is introducing the topic and why the current board decided to issue a SecGen cabinet, where Mab has been appointed Secretary General\\
Mab has now the floor\\
There was an issue of miscommunication so Mab has no time right now for a full report, but he will provide the members a full written report, as far as a full Q&A session on Discourse or direct messeges by email and Mattermost (https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/mattias-bjarnemalm-secretary-general-ama/964)\\
First thing is creating a management team: call for candidates in our website and LinkedIn\\
Five teams involved: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/volunteers-needed\\
This is a WIP but it's a good start, relying of volunteers only for now and start working next month\\
Of course all this work will be public so everyone could reuse it\\
Communication will be in Discourse\\
Alessandro would like to thank the IT solving the Mattermost SSL issue quickly.\\
Andrel asked if it could be a cooperation with the IT also money for it\\
Alessandro (PPEU Treasurer) answered that there is a dedicated IT budget line a total SecGen disposal for this\

3.Organisational issues\\
a) application of PPRO\\
Marco asked the legal form of PPRO\\
Florian answered that they currently have two parties, one old and one new\
PPRO is recognised as a politcal party in Romania\\

Proposal: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/vote-application-of-pp-ro-as-ordinary-member/1046\\
PPRO is now an Ordinary Member (and our Treasurer will send them the membership fee for 2025 soon!)\\

b) Opportunity of removing board members for inactivity\\
Florian is explaining why the board is suggesting the Council to dismiss them\\
Marco is asking if the board made multiples attempts to reach them\\
Florian answered that yes, the board did it\\
In the case of Lenya she came to the conclusion that she would like to resign\\
With Marek, we tried but with no luck so he was not available\\
Ramas asked to repeat the clarification about Marek, so Florian is repeating it\\
After the clarification, Raman is completely understanding\\
Florian is underlining that there is no blame here, just adminsitrative stuff\\
Andrel is asking that if he provided details he can always be added later\\
Florian is answering that that's true, but next council meeting should elect a new board in all positions for a full mandate: the board is asking this because there is a procedure in place to ask for a removal for inactivity, but the only the council can decide\\

Proposals:\\
-https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/vote-dismissal-of-lenya-run-taha-karim-from-the-board/1047\\
Lenya has been dismissed as vicechair person of PPEU unanimously\\
- https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/vote-dismissal-of-marek-barbus-from-the-board/1048\\
Marek has been dismisssed as ordinary board member of PPEU unanimously\\

c) Statutes changes\\
There is no quorun for statutes changes (2/3 of ordinary members with voting right present at council meeting)\\
We need 9 members present over 13 total, but we only have 7\\
The only thing we can do is to postponed to the next Council Meeting\\
The Statues changes where there to reflect new LBR law that will be in force two days from today: we will violate them but there will be not immediate effect\\
Here it is the new law in force: https://www.lbr.lu/mjrcs-web-front/guide-associations\\
Marco also asked about Statue language: we can continue using English, but in any trails all other versions will be considered (the official LBR languages).\\

d) Delegation to the Board of the decision on the adoption of a new logo
Florian is intoducing the point and Marco is asking why we need a logo change\\
The proposal is to delegate the board to decide the new logo: if not approved, than it will be the Council to decided\\
Designer is a professional and we allocated a 600 € budget for it\\
Andrel doesn't see the point of changing the logo and he considers the Council to be \\
Bastian is saying that change logo is not a right idea and he is disappointed of that proposal\\
Andrel is asking who is in charge to adopt it?
Florian is clarifying\\
Proposal: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/vote-adoption-of-a-new-logo/1049\\
Council rejected the proposal\\

e) Discussion on the events surrounding PPGR resignation from PPEU\\
Agenda point requested by Pirati: Marco is speaking.\\
Two issues here: one is referred to the strong position of PPGR about Israeli-Palestinan conflict\\
The second is that PPGR pointed out that there is in the PPEU a political censorship regarding this matter\\
So question is that in Marco opinion we can see more a miscommunication issue instead of mismanagement but has the board learnt something from this?
Florian answered that yes, things can always be done in a better way, for instance some public communication in Discourse\\
Marco pointed out that when the board is acting, it's acting representing the whole Council, not just a part, so deferring only one side in this specific case was problematic and it appeared as a political stance.\\
Marco also said the we collectively could have held this situation better, also as members\\

NOTE: PPFR delegate left now (15:51 CEST) and delegates his vote to Matej Ahacic (YPE)\\

4. Other motions

a) ECI on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies
Theo is our guest here and he will present this ECI\\
Proposal here: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/discussion-ahead-of-the-19th-council-meeting/1010\\

NOTE: Alessandro has to leave now.\\

The proposal was adopted with 10 votes in favor and 1 abstention (https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/vote-eci-on-psychedelic-assisted-therapies/1050)\\

Questions:\\
Marco: Point 2 is phrased differently in English than in some other languages and it may be undermining the proposal.\\
Theo : Thank you for bringing this up, we will review it.\\


5. Closing of the meeting\\

a) AOB\\
a1) IT Organisation\\
Andrel for PPNL underlines their interest on cooperating on IT\\

a2) Upcoming elections\\

Andrel encourages volunteers or officials (MEPs, PPEU Boardmembers) to participate in the upcoming elections. Andrel forwards a suggestion from Wietse that the region of Maastricht would welcome help. Raman mentions he may be in the area and speaks Dutch; he believes there might be a good young eurocentric audience in Maastricht; he offers to reach out to Marketa Gregorova (Pirate MEP).\\
Lukas offers to relay this call.\\
Raman mentions the upcoming Czech Elections (1st of October...) and underlines he is the point of contact for european pirates (raman.ojha@pirati.cz).\\

b) Final greetings\\

Meeting closed at: 16:21 CEST\\ 
Next council meeting: TBD\\