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Sunday the 23rd of February 2025, online
Recording:

• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrfYeCvdJlc
• Pirates on Air: missing

• C: Florian
• VC: Sara
• VC: Marek
• TR: Alessandro
• BM: Cal
• BM: Jan (joined at 12:31)
• BM: Babak (joined later)

• Mattias Bjärnemalm, Pirate Parties Network Officer

• MEP, 2 votes: not present
• Pirati, Sabrina Pampaloni, 1 vote: present
• PP-CAT, Oliver Exile, 1 vote: present
• PP-CH, Jorgo X, 1 vote: present
• PP-CZ, Raman, 3 votes: present
• PP-DE, Thomas Gaul, Alexander Kohler, 2 votes: present
• PP-FI, delegated Kevin Stenberg (PPSE), 1 vote: (from 11:13)
• PP-FR, Grom, 1 vote: present
• PP-GR, Thanasis, 1 vote: present
• PP-IT, 1 vote: not present
• PP-IS, 3 votes: not present
• PP-LU, 3 votes: not present
• PP-NL, Andrel, Mark Anthony, 2 votes: present
• PP-SE. Kevin, 1 vote: present
• PP-SI. 1 vote: not present
• PP-SK, 1 vote: not present
• YPE, Mili 2 votes: present
  

• PPI, Keith
• PP-Potsdam, Bastian
• PP-Brandeburg, Bastian

Marco Confalonieri made the call, then leave the chair to PPEU chair, Florian

Florian is welcoming everyone and thanks especiallty PP-GR to raise the political level and bring more activities on the table

Election of meeting chair: Marco Confalonieri was elected chair
Chair appointed Alessandro and Sara as minute takers.
Florian is in charge to manage votes in Discourse

https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-approval-of-the-agenda-vote/872
There is an issue raised by Thansis, rergarding the point “Other motions” and specifically the board countermotion: our RoP said that the countermotion should specifically mention the difference from the original one.
Chair is proposing to vote on the agenda anyway and postpone the discussion about motions at the topic.
Thanasis accept to proceed with the vote on the agenda.
Results: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-approval-of-the-agenda-vote/872
Agenda is approved

(no applications to this point)

Serbian pirates asked to move from Observer members but application came too late and it will be taken into account for the next Council Meeting

Sara is presenting Board activities: an extensive document has been uploaded both on Discourse and PPEU Wiki.
Apart from standard activities, the board this year attended a workshop in Brussels to create a PPEU full vision that lead to a Work Plan for 2025

Alessandro showed an emended version of the 2024 annual account report, that will be uploaded in PPEU Wiki and linked in Discourse as well.

No report from the Code of Conduct Council

Marco as lay auditor presented the his report.
Now vote is opened to the motiong of discharging the 2024 board
https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-discharge-of-the-9th-board-vote/875
Result: 2024 board is discharged.

Sara is presenting the plan: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/uploads/short-url/x798yfLG4bSbTOjQ0Zy63wN0Uxv.pdf
Focus on the fact that the board choosed some relevant domains in the long term path for the next EU elections in 2029
Vision is taking into account organisation, community, network. New board should start to move forward from this point of view, or even reprioritise it.
Alessandro was thanking Sara and the board for the work on this plan.
Thanisis asked how we could interests also people close to us, like anarchists
.Alessandro answered that we are trying to create a bridge using our core values, like freedom.
Grom also reported that in France there are more and more anarchists, due to the lack of trust in democracy.
Bastian pointed out that he is upset for Thanasis statememt, because we are not anarchists at all.
Sara wants to clarify that we can accept that we can have different views: probabily this meeting is not the right place to discuss this topic, but it's something that can easily distract us from what we want to achieve.
Thanasis quickly reply that probably he was misunderstood: he is not considering Pirates anarchists, but asked how we can approach also them.

Vote on work plan here: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-2025-workplan-approval-vote/878
The work plan was approved

Alessandro showed an amended version of the 2025 provisional budget, to take into account in-kind donations and further server expenses, without any difference in results from the previous one already showed and approved by the board. Nothing changed from financial perspective and cash flow.
Anyway, the budget already approved by the board for 2025 will be put on vote.

Vote on budget here: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-2025-budget-approval-vote/880

The budget for 2025 was approved

The Greek Pirate Party requested all candidates to respond to the following questions:

Q1 - Do you recognise the genocide of Palestinians?
Q2 - Do we fight united against the far-right rise in EU? Do we isolate the far-right voices within our parties? Yes/No
Q3 - In an effort to fight for climate justice, do we consider an open-borders policy for climate refugees in the EU? Yes/No
Q4. Do you denounce the imperialist practices of USA and NATO over Greenland, Canada, Panama, Gaza? Yes/No

Alessandro said that this is not the right way to proceed and he will not answer any question, pointing out that nodoby should.

Florian is candidate for chairperson
Vote is here:
https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-10th-board-chairperson-election-vote/882
Florian has been re-elected as Chairperson

Sara and Lenya are nominated for vicechairperson
Vote is here: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-10th-board-vice-chairperson-election-vote/884 Both are elected

Alessandro is candidate for treasurer

Vote is here: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-10th-board-treasurer-election-vote/885
Alessandro has been re-elected as Treasurer

Cal, Marek, Babak and Ute are nominated
Vote is here: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-10th-board-members-election-vote/886
They are all elected as board members.

Due to the fact that we only have 4 over 5 possible candidates, meeting chair asked to the members if they want to open for a new board member candidate or not.
Vote is here: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-reopening-of-the-vacant-board-member-spot-vote/887
So nominations are reopened: we have two more candidates for one board position, Mili and Kevin

Vote is here: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-10th-board-5th-board-member-spot-vote/888
Mili has been elected as the 5th board member.

Andrea is candidate for CoC

Vote is here: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-code-of-conduct-council-vote/889
Andrea has been elected as CoC member
We now open a vote to ask our members if they want to reopen the nominations for the two vacancies in the CoC

Vote is here https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-reopening-of-the-two-vacant-cocc-spots-vote/891
So nominations are reopened: we have now the nomination of Petr Kocourek nominated by PPCZ and Kevin by PPSE.

Vote is here: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-cocc-reopened-vacant-cocc-spots-vote/892
Petr and Kevin have been elected as CoC members.

Now that Babak is attending the meeting, Thanasis asked the question above.
After Babak's answers, Thanasis pointed out that PPGR would have liked to changed its position from NO to YES in board member's elections.

• a1) “Standing Against the Ongoing Genocide in Palestine by the Current Israeli Regime” (submitted by the Greek Pirate Party to the 17th Council meeting, where the discussion got postponed to this meeting)
• a2) Counter-Motion added by the Board

A debate started among members.
Raman Ojha (PPCZ) gave his votes to Mili (YPE)

Chair then moved forward with a new proposal to be voted on.
This is a motion to decide how we will proceed: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-palestine-israel-motion-1st-vote/893
Result: The motion to make the individual changes was rejected.

Now chair is putting on vote the two motions, to understand which one will be the candidate proposal in the next vote: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-palestine-israel-issue-2nd-vote/894
Result: The counterproposal submitted by the Board was accepted

The final vote to reject or adopt the motion proposed by the board is taking place now here: https://discourse.european-pirateparty.eu/t/18th-council-meeting-palestine-israel-issue-3rd-vote/895
Result: the board counterproposal has been rejected.

Thanasis is sadly realising that PPEU won't adopt none of the proposals. He is also mentioning some major issues that are now ongoing in Greece, especially regarding privatisation of railways.
There will be a huge demostration also all of the world against current governement: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSOkKO5GRFwHvfZR2umTkGB5STJ_KMgbHgIsrDOWufDW76-Kiv1N0bH3lGogAiwk3YuNtvvKgZYRK9j/pubhtml
Any other proposals would be postponed to the other meetings.
Sara thanks Thanasis for making the great effort of inform us, collecting all information on Discourse.

Meeting has been closed at 16:02 CET