European Pirate Party

{{short description|Pirate European political alliance}}

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{{Infobox political party

| colorcode = {{EUPP data|color}}

| logo = Logo European Pirate Party 01.svg

| logo_size = 300px

| name = European Pirate Party

| abbreviation = PPEU

| president = Florian Roussel

| foundation = {{start date and age|df=y|2014|03|21}}

| headquarters = 1A Route de Luxembourg, L-8184 Kopstal, Luxembourg

| membership_year = {{EUPP data|individual members date}}

| membership = {{EUPP data|individual members}}

| ideology = Pirate politics
Freedom of information
Participatory democracy
Pro-Europeanism

| international = Pirate Parties International

| europarl = Greens/EFA

| colours = {{Color box|#000000|border=darkgray}} Black

| seats1_title = European Parliament

| seats1 = {{EUPP data|seat composition bar|EP}}

| seats2_title = {{nobr|European Commission}}

| seats2 = {{EUPP data|seat composition bar|EC}}

| seats3_title = European Council

| seats3 = {{EUPP data|seat composition bar|EUCO}}

| seats4_title = European
Lower Houses

| seats4 = {{EUPP data|seat composition bar|ms-lower-house}}

| seats5_title = European
Upper Houses

| seats5 = {{EUPP data|seat composition bar|ms-upper-house}}

| website = {{EUPP data|website}}

| country = the European Union

}}

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File:Markéta Gregorová in February 2019.jpg, Former President of the European Pirate Party, in February 2019]]

The European Pirates (PIRATES) or European Pirate Party (PPEU) is a pirate European political alliance. Despite its organisation and sometimes being referred to as a "European party" or "transnational party", the European Pirate Party does not meet the requirements to register as a European political party.

The European Pirates were founded on 21 March 2014 at the European Parliament in Brussels in the context of a conference on "European Internet Governance and Beyond",[https://europeanpirates.eu/programme PPEU founding & European Internet Governance and Beyond – Programme] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311021217/https://europeanpirates.eu/programme|date=11 March 2014 }}, PPEU

and consists of pirate parties of European countries. The parties cooperated to run a joint campaign for the 2014 European Parliament elections.{{cite news|url=http://euobserver.com/institutional/115888|title='Pirates' to run joint campaign in next EU elections|date=16 April 2012|work=EUobserver}}

File:EP, Brusel, Julia Reda.jpg – the Pirate MEP for the 2014 to 2019 term.]]

The founding meeting elected Amelia Andersdotter, Swedish Member of the European Parliament for Piratpartiet, as the first chairperson.[http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/piratpartiet/pressreleases/europeiska-piratpartiet-bildat-975386] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220411062443/https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/piratpartiet/pressreleases/europeiska-piratpartiet-bildat-975386|date=11 April 2022}}. euroelection.co.uk. The party's members elected to the European Parliament are in The Greens–European Free Alliance.{{cite web|url=http://www.euroelection.co.uk/article/greens_european_free_alliance|title=Greens – European Free Alliance|access-date=20 June 2015}}

In November 2020, a new board was elected. Mikuláš Peksa was confirmed as a chairperson, Florie Marie (France) and Katla Hólm Vilbergs Þórhildardóttir (Iceland) were elected as chairperson. Alessandro Ciofini (Italy), Lukáš Doležal, Jan Mareš (both Czech Republic) and Mia Utz, Oliver Herzig (both Germany) were elected as ordinary members of the board.{{cite web|title=Board|url=https://european-pirateparty.eu/board/|website=European Pirate Party|access-date=16 December 2020}}