The Czech Pirate Party won 18 seats in the October 2025 election for Parliament! 🥳 Unfortunately, the main winner of the election was the populist billionaire and former prime minister Andrej Babiš and his ANO movement. He has expressed skepticism toward support for Ukraine and has drawn closer to authoritarian leaders such as Viktor Orbán in Hungary. The Czech Pirates run on a diametrically opposed […]
Congratulations to the New Board of the Pirate Party Germany!
The Pirate Party Germany held its General Assembly on September 27 and 28 in Dudweiler, Germany and elected their 19th Federal Board. Lilia Kayra Kuyumcu was elected as the new Chair. At just 18 years old, she is the youngest Chair in the history of the German Pirate Party. She will be joined by Denis KlĂĽver as Vice-Chair, Jutta Dietrich as Treasurer, and Babak Tubis, […]
Next PPI board meeting on 07.10.2025 at 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST.
Ahoy Pirates, Our next PPI board meeting will take place on 07.10.2025 at 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST. All official PPI proceedings, Board meetings included, are open to the public. Feel free to stop by. We’ll be happy to have you. Where: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board Minutes of the meeting: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2025-09-23 Agenda: Pad: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-board-meeting-2025-09-16-pd7m0vl All of our meetings are posted to our calendar: https://pp-international.net/calendar/ We look forward to seeing visitors. […]
Stop Killing Games
Pirate Parties International supports the Stop Killing Games Initiative. Let people keep playing the games they bought! Provide gamers basic consumer rights. Give clear notice before shutting down a game. Offer refunds when access is removed. Provide offline play or patches when servers close. Be transparent about data use. Protect game history and preservation. Recent commentary by a Youtube games vlogger named “Pirate Software” misstates […]
Reviewing PPI´s Participation at the Internet Governance Forum
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) just ended, and PPI was lucky enough to host a workshop and have several representatives on site, together with our colleagues from PPEU. We have participated in this event for numerous years consecutively and view this forum as one of our main avenues to influence transnational governance on an issue that is very important to us, the Internet. This was […]
Pirates at the UNHQ Partnership Forum in NY
On January 30, 2024 PPI’s representatives Ohad Shem Tov and Ohad Bar Siman Tov attended the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the Partnership Forum of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The forum addressed the critical theme of “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient, and innovative solutions.” https://ecosoc.un.org/en/events/2024/ecosoc-partnership-forum The 2024 ECOSOC […]
Dec. 6, 8, and 9th PPI Board, Beer, GA Links
Ahoy! We announce the big events in early December: Board Meeting, Pirate Beer, and the GA. On Wednesday, December 6th at 21:00 UTC, we will have an early PPI Board Meeting: Add to calendar This event will take place on Jitsi: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board On Friday, December 8th at 21:00 UTC, we will have a special Pre-GA Pirate Beer meeting. Pirate beer meetings have been known to last for many hours, […]
Pirate Parties International Statement on the Ongoing Conflict in Israel and Palestine
Pirate Parties International expresses its strong condemnation of the ongoing conflict in Israel and Palestine. We are deeply saddened by the events in the region and extend our solidarity to the people of both nations who are suffering the consequences of this protracted conflict. We firmly reject violence and advocate for a peaceful and diplomatic solution. We encourage Palestinians and Israelis to pave the way for an […]
PPI sends delegates to the UN’s Cybercrime Committee
From August 21 to 25, 2023, PPI’s representatives at the UN Headquarters in New York, Dr. Ohad Shem Tov and Dr. Keith Goldstein, participated as delegates in the Sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/cybercrime/ad_hoc_committee/ahc_sixth_session/main. The committee was attended primarily by national delegations, as well as […]
Invite: Introduction to PPI Standing Committees
Dear Pirates, You are hereby invited to join Pirate Parties International for our first working group event of the year, “Introduction to PPI Standing Committees”. We felt that before we start getting the Standing Committees going again, it would be a good idea to have an introductory session first. There are currently 5 PPI Standing Committees and as a group we will go through each […]
