Making Europe democratic - pt. 1 - the Pirate Party

In this short series we discuss three relatively new political parties. All three seek to change the political game in Europe. In this first part we discuss the Pirate Party.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro: democratise Europe
0:57 The Disrupters
1:32 the Pirate Party

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With Ciceroni we seek to be a guide to European culture and history. We make videos on little known subjects as well as more ubiquitous ones, ranging from current affairs like the European Union, to historic events like the Tulip Mania, and even mythological stories like those of the Greek Gods. In all these videos we strive to present the subjects in a objective manner and within their complex context.

[napoleonibonaparte]

The lack of coverage for the reformists in the media is criminal.

[torrent]

I’m glad to see the Pirate Party is starting to do well in Czechia. Unfortunately it hasn’t really taken off (edit: yet) in the USA

[rolandschneider]

Pirate Party Austria is and always has been a very active member of PPI and we endorse and enjoy being part of our international community. It's nice to have friends around the world.

[vladdumitrica]

Countries with parliaments are in fact oligarchies (few lead). In order to be a true democracy, the decisions of the Parliament should be submitted to the approval of the citizens. The democratic aspect is a side effect in societies where economies have a strong competitive aspect, where the interests of those who hold economic power in society are divergent. Thus, those with money, and implicitly with political power in society, are supervising each other so that none of them have undeserved advantages due to politics. Because of this, countries with large mineral resources, like Russia and Venezuela (their share in GDP is large), do not have democratic aspects, because a small group of people can exploit these resources in their own interest. In poor countries, the main resource exploited may even be the state budget, as they have converging interests in benefiting, in their own interest, from this resource. This is what is observed in Romania, Bulgaria, when, no matter which party comes to power, the result is the same. The solution is modern direct democracy in which every citizen can vote, whenever he wants, over the head of the parliamentarian who represents him. He can even dismiss him if most of his constituents consider that their interests are not right represented

[eyadalhalabi]

Male, born in 1981, is called Malik Al-Masry, mangolo a resident of Damascus. He works as a drug dealer in secret. As for the public, he works in a company that sells beauty products in Damascus in cooperation with officers working in the Political Security Division in Damascus. He owns a bank account in Europe in dollars in Belgium and Holland, and possible elsewhere, and bought European citizenship for freedom of movement between Damascus and Europe via Lebanon,

[docopoper]

I'd love to vote for these guys, but I don't remember ever seeing them on a ballot in Ireland.
Maybe they were there and I'd just never heard of them, but also the idea of being so beholden to the list of EU parties my local political parties pair up with is pretty frustrating.

[Holzvale]

Never Shell we Die and we Come to Overcome - ProPiraten

[PegiBruno]

we need them to get more power in sweden :B

[pedromanescu]

This made me curious to search about the branch of this party from my country, Romania. What I found on their site made me sad. Full of blatant conspiracies presented in an aggressive and unprofessional way. I hope this doesn't sum up all of the other branches and it's only the case in this situation because of the socio-demographic reasons of the area.

[niklasl]

The German Pirate Party's basic concept is "let us download free stuff!"