European Pirate Party 12th Council Meeting April 16th, 2023

This council meeting will take place in Strasbourg, at Le Shadok. The meeting will start at 10.00 CEST, April 16th, and it will be part of the European Pirate Weekend, organized by the French pirate party.

Link to the meeting: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPEU-CouncilMeeting

IF you are an official delegate for a member party you will be asked to provide documentation that shows that you have been appointed delegate for your party, in there's any uncertainty in the matter.

Official invitation email
Email update

Draft agenda

• Membership applications
• Nominated Board members
• Nominated members for Code of Conduct Council
• Nominated Lay Auditors

• Motion for changes to the statutes to allow non Pirate Party parties as full members of the association - Postponed from previous Council meeting

The Council meeting is part of the European Pirate Weekend, which stretches from Friday 14th of April to Monday 17th of April. Here is an updated booklet with practical information, and a schedule

The CEEP workshop is intended to conclude the drafting process of the Common European Election Program for the 2024 European elections, that has been onging on the European Pirate Party Discourse. It consists of two blocks: 11-13 and 14-18.

Draft schedule:
Block 1:
11-11:30: Presentation of the process, timeline and structure of the CEEP
11:30-12:00: Discussion on next steps
12:00-12:30: Joint discussion on the preamble
12:30-13:00: Explanation of how the afternoon session will work

Block 2:
14:00-17:00 Split into five separate tables with responsibility for a grouping of chapters. This block might have to be adapted to take into consideration decisions made during the first block.

• 1,Net Policy, 2,Open Data, 3,Free Software, 4,Human Rights in the Digital Age
  
• 1,Education, Culture, Research & Free Knowledge, 2,Civil Society, 3,Social Affairs and Healthcare, 4,Drug Policy
  
• 1,International Affairs, 2,Security & Defence
• 1,Agriculture and Fisheries, 2,Environment, Climate and Energy, 3, Transport, 4,Space Programme, 5,Regional Development
  
• 1,Finances (possibly added extra chapters here, or change the title, depending on the morning session)
  

17:15-18:00 Presentation from the working groups, conclusion

In the Morning of the 17th of April the Pirate Delegation int the European Parliament will organise a two-part workshop on Campaign strategies and techniques and apply these in a second step to the efforts to the campaign Stop Chat Control. Please fill out this form if you require access to the European Parliament to participate. Note that people already signed up for the visitors Group still need to register separately for this workshop.

The Monday 17th of April will conclude the Pirate Weekend with a, Courtesy of MEP Mikulas Peksa, feature Ep visit 2023-04-17|a sponsored visit to the European Parliament premises in Strasbourg. Those participating in this Visitors Group will be eligible to get some reimbursements towards travel and accommodation. You can register your interest for the visitors group here: The visitors Group is coordinated by Alessandro Ciofini, so please reach out to him for any questions related to the visit. He can be reached by email: alessandro.ciofini@gmail.com

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