Fórum Pirátské strany

MEP Meeting 07/06/2022

Draft agenda

Recurring items

• Approval of minutes from the last meeting (01.06.2022)
  o minutes adopted

Admin/HR/Organisational

1. Presence on Monday’s voting session
    Members to try to be present on Monday’s voting session, especially when important vote is planned.
2. Possible group extension (in camera)

Policy/PR/Coordination

1. Vote on censure
   • MEP Verhofstadt collecting signatures for Motion of censure on the Commission by the European Parliament
   • Group is supporting this week’s Resolution instead, MEPs discouraged to sign the Motion.
   • The next steps to be decided after further inquiries on rules of procedure in regards to the motion being tabled with conditions fulfilled in the meantime – to be discussed with Jules
   • The deadline to decide on the signature set for Wednesday 08/06/2022

Any other business

MEP Meeting 27/06/2022
Draft agenda
Recurring items

• Approval of minutes from the last meeting (20.06.2022)
  ◦ approved

Admin/HR/Organisational

1. Networking Officer
2. Mab will take over his tasks and retain a few tasks for his old job for a few months

Policy/PR/Coordination

1. Landesparteitag der Piraten Thüringen in Erfurt

2. Mikulas is going 9-10 July, Anne (Chair PPDE) will be there too

   1. Proposal Survey among Minors on Chatcontrol

3. Czech PR department and Niki to look into what other questions we could ask to policy

4. Check with Admins for GEA availability

5. The digital campaigns

6. GSE cluster – Data Justice campaign (Mikulas will be there to vote for the campaign)

7. Julian Assange nomination for Sacharov Prize

8. Whole Delegation support it

9. Potential extension of the Group (Marcel) (in camera)

MEP Meeting 05/07/2022
Draft agenda
Recurring items

• Approval of minutes from the last meeting (27.06.2022)
• minutes approved

Admin/HR/Organisational

1. BL400 complaint follow up
   • to coordinate on the technical level

2. Pirate Party Workshop (16/09/2022) financing
   • proposal needed in order to decide how much money from BL 400 could be allocated to this project – Mikuláš to follow up with Mab

3. Staff matters: delegation advisor (in camera)

Policy/PR/Coordination

1. Hearings of Czech ministers in the EP (in camera)

• to be discussed with the group advisors from respective committees
o Patrick added 2 Libe questions but not concerning Pirate ministers

1. Taxonomy (in camera)

Any other business

MEP Meeting 29/08/2022

Draft agenda

Recurring items

• Approval of minutes from the last meeting (18.7.2022) - approved

Admin/HR/Organisational

1. "Tomas Polak's Microsoft and antivirus license" 150 EUR/year for both
2. Update: Licenses are not needed anymore

Policy/PR/Coordination

1. cooperation of Czech MEPs with Evropaneasi

2. how much money from which budget?

3. everything must be completely transparent

4. the influencer would prefer if the posts could be without the Greens/EFA logo, just with a disclaimer in text

5. concerns about aggressive outside communication
   Action Point: Getting an assessment of the proposal by the Delegation PR and setting up a meeting between Evropaneasi, Delegation PR and CZ MEPs

6. Group is building a position on minimum income (Jules will join)

7. common position that minimum income should be 60% of national median salary

8. problem: in some countries, it would lead to raise of minimum salary (e.g. CZ) and bureaucratic hurdles (especially in DE)

9. Jules will send the offices a one-pager

10. position will be over 2 months

11. raise issue in PPEU Council in mid Sept

12. Coordination on Committee level NIS2 (not time sensitive, next time)

13. just for Czech MEPs: suggestions on ETS from Czech Parliament

14. call for a meeting of Pirate MEPs and Pirate MPs in the CZ Parliament

Any other business

MEP Meeting 10/10/2022

Draft agenda

Recurring items

• Approval of minutes from the last meeting (24/10/2022) - approved

Admin/HR/Organisation

• Panda’s contract extension (public tender necessary)
o Admin will find out process
o Sam knows the details

Policy/PR/Coordination

• the statement towards Meta
o Length of document should be set chapter 1+2 not longer than 0,5-1 pages
o each office will work on their respective parts
• VP elections (in camera)

MEP Meeting 16/11/2022

Draft agenda

Recurring items

• Approval of minutes from the last meeting (09/11/2022) - approved

Admin/HR/Organisation

• Panda’s contract extension (public tender necessary)
o admin team to prepare the job description for an open public competition (based on the past description).
o MEPs to look at the job description ad hoc to start with the procedure as soon as possible

Policy/PR/Coordination

• Group meeting:
o vote ‘A Transition that Works for All People’
 Marcel to give proxy vote to Mikuláš
o RePower EU debrief?
 Mikulas debriefed MEPs

• Mastodon sponsorship
o Katka to look into the rules of the GEA

• Campaign survey (Tom Polák)
o MEPs decided to jointly focus on Czechia, Hungary, Slovenia, Germany, Luxembourg and will individually decide on financing surveys in other countries.

• Christmas Party (Tom Polák – Czech MEPs)
o Czech MEPs decided to organize the Christmas Party in the Glass Bar and share the costs equally.
o The official start of the event would be at 19:00 with the possibility to invite other people from 21:00

• Photoshooting in Strasbourg (Tom Polák – Czech MEPs) POSTPONED
• Dinner with journalists in STR (Tom Polák – Czech MEPs) POSTPONED

MEP Meeting 28/11/2022

Draft agenda

Recurring items

Approval of minutes from the last meeting (22/11/2022)

Admin/HR/Organisation

IT presentation by Panda

Mastodon GEA sponsorship

Gold tier – 2160 USD/year
Platinum tier – 5400 USD/year
includes logo and do-follow link on the sponsors page (gold tier) or the front page (platinum tier)
includes access to Discord developers’ channel sponsoring
Mastodon could set a precedent for other sponsorships
the PR team will reach out to Mastodon dev team to ask if there is a possibility to pay for features development, which make it to upstream

Policy/PR/Coordination

MEP
Meeting 05/12/2022

Draft agenda

approval last minutes

Admin/HR/Organisational

IT presentation by Panda (postponed, Panda is ill)

Member State data and polls of Greens/EFA group before the 2024 elections and how the Pirates can use them

• the Group planning to do a lot of polls and statistics for all member states, and the Pirates should reach out to Vula/Simon to tell them we could use them, and maybe even tell them which topics or questions to focus on in Czechia

• tailored to each MS

our opportunity for CZ pirates to influence

• Mab has been tasked with finding out the process and how we can influence it

Compensation for EGP congress

• compensation for Tomas, Mab, Sam and Martina for their attendance at the congress on the weekend - 2 days
  → agreed

debrief:

• massive event

• networking with Greens

• other groups which are affiliated with Greens (e.g. EFA, Volt, DK Alternativet, Estonia 200)

Policy/PR/Coordination

Julian Assange Pardon Letter

• Stella Assange will be in STR

• send a letter to Biden asking to pardon Assange and getting as many signatures from other MEPs

• can Marketa (‘s team) take the lead? - yes, check if something similar is already planned

• Marketa is joining a lunch with Stella Assange in STR next week

Group meeting agenda

B. Roadmap on ‘Profiling of the Group towards the 2024 EP Elections’

• mab can keep an eye on background paper was already sent out, with no pirate content in it (was decided it’s not bad anyways)

D. Presentation of the group’s updated financial rules (vote 13.12)

• Jules is tasked with keeping up to date

MEP Meeting 13/01/2023
Draft agenda
-approval of last meeting minutes: approved

Admin/HR/Organisational

• IT presentation by Panda: Panda informed MEPs about issues that remain open as of today and require follow up

• Selection procedure IT administrator/team leader state of play – postponed to next week

Policy/PR/Coordination

• PP-CZ GA postponed to next week

MEP Meeting 23/01/2023

Draft agenda

• approval last minutes: approved

Admin/HR/Organisational

MEP visitors quota

1: 80 people, Strasbourg in April. Sponsor: Mikulas
2: 12 people, Brussels in March. Sponsor: Marketa
3: 15-20 people, Brussels in March. Sponsor: tbc

• Marcel can sponsor 15 people for Group 3
  4: 15-20 people, Brussels in March/April. Sponsor: tbc
  Group 4 – combine it with a discussion on chat control, then Patrick could sponsor it

Policy/PR/Coordination

disinformation law