European Pirate Party
European Pirate Party | |
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| Abbreviation | Pirates |
| President | Florian Roussel |
| Founded | 21 March 2014 |
| Headquarters | 1A Route de Luxembourg, L-8184 Kopstal, Luxembourg |
| Ideology | Pirate politics Freedom of information Participatory democracy |
| European Parliament group | Greens/EFA |
| International affiliation | Pirate Parties International |
| Colours | Black |
| European Parliament | 1 / 720 |
| European Commission | 0 / 27 |
| European Council | 0 / 27 |
| European Lower Houses | 6 / 6,229 |
| European Upper Houses | 0 / 1,459 |
| Website | |
| european-pirateparty.eu | |
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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", and consists of pirate parties of European countries. The parties cooperated to run a joint campaign for the 2014 European Parliament elections.
The founding meeting elected Amelia Andersdotter, Swedish Member of the European Parliament for Piratpartiet, as the first chairperson. The party's members elected to the European Parliament are in The Greens–European Free Alliance.
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.
In the 2024 European Parliament election, it lost three of its four seats. The Pirate Party of Greece unanimously decided, in its 12th Congress held on 1 June 2025, to leave the PPEU and the Pirate Parties International, citing ideological issues, a lack of political added value, and a lack of room for "constructive and productive political discourse".