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Board Candidates for PPEU 2014
If you want to become a Board Member of PPEU when it is founded in March 2014, please enter your name and other data in the list below until the 13th of February 2014 (This arbitrary date was set to allow the parties to make up their minds about which candidates to support by nomination. Any party may also sponsor candidates which are not listed on this page or enter their candidacy after the 13th.).
As candidates may only be nominated by Pirate Parties, you will only be an official candidate for a position in the Board of PPEU, if at least one Pirate Party which will be a founding member of PPEU is sponsoring you until the 20th of February 2014.
Each Pirate Party may sponsor several candidates and candidates from other Pirate Parties (which is also heavily encouraged).
If you want to know what you will have to do after successfully candidating for the Board of PPEU, please take a look at Art. 16 ff. of the Statutes of PPEU.
Candidates for Chairperson of PPEU
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PP-SE | Currently in the European Parliament for PPSE
The board of PPSE nominated Amelia here: http://lists.pp-international.net/pipermail/pp-eu.coordinators/2014-February/000290.html |
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teirdesCandidates for Vice-Chairperson of PPEU (2 are needed!)
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PP-SE | Currently in the European Parliament for PPSE
The board of PPSE nominated Amelia here: http://lists.pp-international.net/pipermail/pp-eu.coordinators/2014-February/000290.html |
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PP-BE |
Since Prague 2012, I actively attend many meetings around Europe : Barcelone, Rome, Paris, Zagreb, Warzow or Luxembourg. All my motivation to be a pirate in Belgium is because of the international aspect of the pirate mouvement. I speak french, flemish or english and of course, i'm living in Brussel. I'm project leader at Ministry of Finances since ten years en board member of Pirate Party Belgium since nearly two years and alternate board member of PPI since last year GA. |
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PP-DE | Because PPEU is my baby (in a way) and I want to make sure that it thrives. Right now I'm authorized to work on the creation of the PPEU for the German Pirates and help with European Coordination. I'm also a candidate for the elections of the European Parliament for PP-DE, but due to my position it is not very likely that I will be a Parliamentarian. Therefore I will have the necessary time to take care of PPEU then. |
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PP-FR | About future : I want to contribute to the Pirates movement at the European level. I have made my best to actively contribute to the PP-EU and other international meetings, and to help fix things when needed. I hope you will give me the occasion to do more, and that we can increase our cooperation and develop the European Pirates idea.
About present : Right now I have no official position in the PP-FR and I plan not to run for one. If I am elected I would be dedicated to the PP-EU work. I speak French, English, and a little bit of Spanish. AFK, I am a computer engineer that develop video games for a living. About past : I joined Pirate Party in 2009. I guided PP-FR into running candidate in its first election where we gathered 2%. Between 2010 and 2012 I have been Board member, Chairman and Co-Chairman. In 2012 we managed to have PP-FR present a hundred candidates to the National Assembly election, and reached more than one thousand members. After the October 2012 internal reform, I progressively disengaged from PP-FR, and focused on animating the International team and contribute to PP-EU. |
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 Didier Urschitz |
PP-Fr | Candidate for the european election (North-West circonscription, France) | ||
| Cédric LEVIEUX | PP-FR | Currently at the National Coordination Board of the PP-FR (since November 2012) |
Candidates for Treasurer of PPEU
| Name/Picture | Pirate Party | Why me? | Media | Nominating PP |
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 Bastian
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PP-DE |
I am applying to be elected as a Member of the Board (treasurer). I had the opportunity to visit many countries in my life and I can also be found capable of coping with their language. Since my first General Assembly chairman’s job in 2011 in Friedrichshafen, I have accompanied the International Pirates Movement continuously. For the PPEU foundation process I worked in many international conferences since 2012, such as in Prague (CZ), Aarau (CH), Barcelona (CAT), Rome (I), Manchester (GB), Paris (F), Warsaw (PL) and Luxembourg. I have participated at several online-meetings for developing PPEU-Statues and PPEU-Manifesto. Financially I am independent, so I could pay for my expenses on my own. It will be an extraordinary challenge to organize all necessary structures for our new PPEU and would mean a great honor to me to take on this task. I am a professional accountant, so I know what that task means. To unite the international Pirates movement is a challenging goal that will make us stand together. Europe should be a continent without borders – Pirates should work together without borders. Something about me: Within the international movement:
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Candidates for Member of the Board of PPEU without an appointed office (0 to 5 may be elected)
| Name/Picture | Pirate Party | Why me? | Media | Nominating PP |
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PP-DE | I get things done :) | tba | |
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PP-BE | Since Prague 2012, I actively attend all the meetings around Europe : Barcelone, Rome, Paris, Zagreb, Warzow or Luxembourg. All my motivation to be a pirate in Belgium is because of the international aspect of the pirate mouvement. I speak french, flemish or english and of course, i'm living in Brussel. I'm project leader at Ministry of Finances since ten years en board member of Pirate Party Belgium since nearly two years and alternate board member of PPI since last year GA. |
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PP-DE | I am applying to be elected as a Member of the Board without an appointed office. I have been travelling around the world ever since. Already as teenager I visited almost all Western European States and after the end of the cold war I did start visiting a lot of Eastern European States as well. From the polar circle in Sweden and Finland down to Gibraltar (even crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Ceuta on the African continent), from Ireland to the Russian border to Finland, Turkey, Estonia, jumping over the border of our continent to countries like Egypt - you name it. I like to travel and I like to be emerged with the people living there in all these foreign countries with the variety of cultures which I always consider as a great and priceless experience.
Having said this I would like to mention that, starting in 2004, I was transferred from the German Armed Forces, where I work as a civilian in the field of Electrical Engineering, for one year to Ottawa, Canada and for more than 4 years to Washington D.C. in the US. I don't want to miss the experience on the North American Continent, where I e.g. was able to visit all 50 States, but looking back there is one big wish for Europe, since every trend that starts in the US seems eventually to jump over ‘the pond’: I don't want to see the capitalism of the United States coming together with a thoroughness, like for instance we Germans are well known for. With this combination there is a risk that we get a much colder society and a much rougher capitalism as we have ever experienced or imagined. It's dangerous when the power of money becomes much more powerful than every other value in our societies. Almost every political topic especially we pirates put on our agenda is more or less driven by the influence of capital. I would like to fight against this threat, and I believe I can do this on a broader scale as a member of the board of the “European Pirates”, the PPEU. I have been very active within the German Pirate Party (as it can be seen on my webpage) and just became a member of the Danish Pirate Party. I am looking forward becoming a member of the Pirate Party of Canada. Beside my mother language, which is German, I speak English fluently. Living close to Denmark with many relatives in Denmark I am able to communicate in Danish as well, which also makes it easier to communicate with people from Sweden or Norway. French is the 4th language I learned in my life, but with abilities on a much lower scale :-). |
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| Cédric LEVIEUX | PP-FR | Currently at the National Coordination Board of the PP-FR (since November 2012) | ||
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PP-DE | Because PPEU is my baby (in a way) and I want to make sure that it thrives. Right now I'm authorized to work on the creation of the PPEU for the German Pirates and help with European Coordination. I'm also a candidate for the elections of the European Parliament for PP-DE, but due to my position it is not very likely that I will be a Parliamentarian. Therefore I will have the necessary time to take care of PPEU then. |
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| Bastian
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PP-DE |
I am applying to be elected as a Member of the Board (treasurer). I had the opportunity to visit many countries in my life and I can also be found capable of coping with their language. Since my first General Assembly chairman’s job in 2011 in Friedrichshafen, I have accompanied the International Pirates Movement continuously. For the PPEU foundation process I worked in many international conferences since 2012, such as in Prague (CZ), Aarau (CH), Barcelona (CAT), Rome (I), Manchester (GB), Paris (F), Warsaw (PL) and Luxembourg. I have participated at several online-meetings for developing PPEU-Statues and PPEU-Manifesto. Financially I am independent, so I could pay for my expenses on my own. It will be an extraordinary challenge to organize all necessary structures for our new PPEU and would mean a great honor to me to take on this task. I am a professional accountant, so I know what that task means. To unite the international Pirates movement is a challenging goal that will make us stand together. Europe should be a continent without borders – Pirates should work together without borders. Something about me: Within the international movement:
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 Gregory Engels
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PP-DE, PP-LU, PP-SE, PP-RU, PP-KZ | Should the Council decide to elect board members, I would like to put forward my application for one of this positions. I am currently serving in my third term as one of PPI Co-Chairpersons and am certain that having me on the board of PPEU would ensure a close coordination and information exchange that would be of benefit to both organizations. I am running as a candidate for the European Parliament for PP-DE and therefor certain that the position of a board member is the one that I can concentrate on with the due time effort. |
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PP-FR | About future : I want to contribute to the Pirates movement at the European level. I have made my best to actively contribute to the PP-EU and other international meetings, and to help fix things when needed. I hope you will give me the occasion to do more, and that we can increase our cooperation and develop the European Pirates idea.
About present : Right now I have no official position in the PP-FR and I plan not to run for one. If I am elected I would be dedicated to the PP-EU work. I speak French, English, and a little bit of Spanish. AFK, I am a computer engineer that develop video games for a living. About past : I joined Pirate Party in 2009. I guided PP-FR into running candidate in its first election where we gathered 2%. Between 2010 and 2012 I have been Board member, Chairman and Co-Chairman. In 2012 we managed to have PP-FR present a hundred candidates to the National Assembly election, and reached more than one thousand members. After the October 2012 internal reform, I progressively disengaged from PP-FR, and focused on animating the International team and contribute to PP-EU. |
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PP-AD | For more drugs, sex and profanities! | tba | |
Guy Fawkes |
PP-UK | Remember, remember the Fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot; I know of no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. |
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PP-Anarchy |
Guy Fawkes II |
PP-UK | Remember, remember the Fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot; I know of no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. |
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PP-Anarchy |
