Next meeting :
23th August - 12h30 - French Discord
Agenda :
Consolidation of the first draft
Foreign Affairs & Defense Policy
Amended Draft
Foreign Affairs Policy
General declaration
The Pirate Party believes in the European Union’s ability to create exchanges of ideas, experience and knowledge, both between Europeans and the rest of the world. Sharing information, knowledge and culture brings people closer together and society develops.
Strengthening Europeans’ opportunities to share and tie social ties with each other should be the primary objective of the EU project.
The goal of the European Foreign Affairs policies is to build durable diplomatic relations between the European Union and the other states. Those bilateral relations can be based on cultural, economic or technological exchanges.
The building of the European diplomacy have to respect the freedom of Internet, the protection of rights and the sustainable development.
International protection of fundamental rights
The European Union must create a protective status for European and international whistleblowers. They must be able to benefit from the right to asylum if they are not European citizens.
The European Union must integrate the protection of the rights of women and LGBTQI+ people as part of its international cooperation policy.
International Trade Policy
Introduction
Pirates consider the right to privacy and self-determination of the people as self-evident. Those rights need to be respected and promoted in the context of trade agreements.
As part of the European economic diplomacy, the focus has to be on avoiding lasting imbalances in the exchange of goods and services.
We reject multilateral international agreements that force dysfunctional monopolies and patents to the detriment of civil rights and human freedoms.
The pirate party wants trade agreements to always protect the personal data of consumers and firms.
Principles for Trade Agreements
PIRATES stipulate that in all negotiations of the European Union on trade agreements the following conditions must be met:
- Stronger participation of the European Parliament;
- comprehensive access to information and public hearings;
- respect for freedom of Internet, social rights, and civil rights and ; sustainable development ;
- the interests of small and medium-sized enterprises must be taken into account.
Stronger participation by the European Parliament
Trade agreements contain political decisions that are important and difficult to change after they are adopted. Therefore, the European Parliament, the only body in the EU that has a direct democratic mandate, should have equal rights to the European Commission when dealing with trade policies.
The European Parliament via its Committee on International Trade (INTA) should have access to all the negotiation material and a right to observer to negotiation and to make binding remarks to the European Commission.
Comprehensive access to information and public hearings
The Pirates are against secret negotiations.
All documents concerning the negotiations of trade agreements should be made available to the European Parliament as well as to the public. All negotiations and hearings should be conducted in public. We demand that all results of consultations, must be published promptly and in full.
Respect for freedom of Internet, social rights, civil rights and sustainable development
Pirates consider the right to privacy and self-determination of the people as self-evident. Therefore they also need to be respected and promoted in the context of trade agreements.
As these principles apply to all people, the EU has to make sure that trade agreements will not allow their trading partners to breach them.
Trade Agreement shouldn’t forget the social rights of other countries.
All the futur european trade agreement should take into account the respect of the sustainable development. The agreement cannot be ratified if it has a negative impact on the environment.
The interests of small and medium-sized enterprises must be taken into account
At the moment trade agreements mainly take into account the interests of global enterprises, while small and medium-sized companies rarely benefit; SMEs are increasingly ousted from the market. We want to change that.
Responsibility of international corporations
The European Union must make it possible to engage the legal responsibility of companies in the event of infringement of European environmental law for their actions on the territory of the Union but also for their actions outside the territory of the EU if in the latter the seat of their parent company is on the territory of the European Union.
Conflicts Resolution
Pirates want to pay special attention to the stabilization of conflict outbreaks and fragile states, as their instability is a source of problems for the entire international community.
Conflicts resolution have to be base on the respect of the International Law which is the base for a peaceful international community.
Defense Policy
European Armed Force
All the existing european defense activities as well as all the future common activities shall be put under European Parliament control.
Before the founding of European Armed Forces there has to be installed a parliamentary reservation for the European Parliament in advance the use of such forces.
Until the installation of this parliamentary reservation the Pirates refuse the joining of armed forces.
Defense and Technology
Artificial Intelligence
The national armed forces of countries within European Union are not allowed to invest in artificial intelligence research (and associated algorithms) if the purpose of this research is to allow the autonomous decision of killing a target.
The Pirates want to promote an international convention that prohibits autonomous combat robots taking their own decisions to use their weapons.
Cyber Defense
Cyberwar is largely without transparency or the possibility of claiming liability.
In accordance with our principles of technical development and transparent conduct of power, we want to work for international conventions bind signatories to openly declare the use of cyber weapons.
This includes the purchase of third-party monitoring programs for the purpose of spying on foreign individuals. We also want signatories to commit themselves not to actively undermine the security of civilian systems.
Use of weapons
Pirates are striving for more stringent regulation of the world arms trade and banning arms exports to conflict areas.
The European Parliament should have to give its agreement for any weapons exportation outside of the European Union.
We refuse the use of mercenaries and unmarked regular army warriors to diversify or occupy a foreign territory.
Pirates consider that surveillance and censorship technology are weapons that have to be included in the restriction of trading.