Round of introductions of participants

Ahoj!
My name is Janka Michailidu, I joined the PP-CZ in 2012 and I’m leading its expert team on Addiction Policy. I’m also a member of the Government Council for Addiction Policy Coordination and member of the National Drug Coordinator’s team where we prepare changes in the context of psychoactive substances on national level (to give some examples: cannabis regulation, kratom regulation, drug consumption rooms, drug testing and such).

I will be coordinating the preparation of Drug Policy chapter of our Common European Election Program and I am looking forward to working with those of you who are interested in this topic :black_heart:

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Hi, I am Jirka Lehejček from CZ Pirates. My background is in dendroecology and landscape management and I would like to contribute to Envi and Agri chapters. Currently employed at universities, delivering for European Environmental Agency and working on several environmental projects. I regularly publish in the topic.

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Hello all,
My name is Viktor Velek, a Czech Pirate Party “supporter”. I work in the “EU bubble” in Brussels mainly on human rights and foreign policy issues. Happy to help with these topics in forging a good CEEP 2024.

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Hello. Mike Gill, Czech Pirate since 2012, since 2018 on the PPI board, since 2022 chair of the PPCZ Foreign Department. Mainly interested in foreign policy, defence, privacy.

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Hi,
I am David František Wagner, working with Pirates in CZ Parliament from 2017, then I joined the party, worked on European programme for 2019 and then joined the work in the Parliament. I also serve as the member of the wider PP-CZ leadership.
I am mostly working on economy, sustainability/ green growth topics, industry, surveillance capitalism and the related foreign affairs shenanigans. Outside of politics I mostly design games or write about stuff, the writings then get published in Czech magazines (so you can probably find them and translate them for some reason).

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My Name is Sandra Leurs. I was born on January 13, 1961 in Rheinhausen (since 1975 district of Duisburg) North Rhine-Westphalia . I have a journeyman’s certificate as a hairdresser and a state examination as a geriatric nurse. I had to give up the profession of geriatric nurse for health reasons. I enjoyed the profession of a specialist nurse.
In April 2012 I became a member of the Pirate Party Germany. After running in 2014 in the local elections with a seat in the Committee for Social Affairs, Labor, Health, Integration and Senior Citizens, and in 2015 I was a candidate for the position of mayor. Since 2019, I have been the federal commissioner for health and care. In addition, I am also working on the topic in NRW. I am responsible for the election program and position papers with a small team. As in previous years, I was a list candidate for the 2021 federal election and the 2022 state elections in NRW.

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Hey eveyone, I am Veronika, and I am a member of the Czech Pirate Party. I am leading PP-CZ Transport and Logistics team, also worked on several election programmes (including CEEP 2019 in the areas of Energy and Space). For the past few years, I have been professionally working on EU topics around Green Deal, focusing on Energy, Transport and Space policies, so these are chapters I will be happy to contribute to.

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Hey everyone,
I am Carole and I’m a member an employee of the Luxembourgish Pirate Party. I’m still working on my CZ (Level A1) ;). At work, I’m responsible for the subjects of Foreign Policy, Economy and Finance as well as Labour Law. These are the subjects I would like to help work on.

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Hey everyone, I am Lukas, 21 years old. Member of the german pirates since 2019. I am chair of nuremberg pirates, political director of the Middle Franconia pirate party and topic officer for the Bavarian pirates for chatcontrol. I am studying business economics (B.Sc.) with a focus on marketing. My topics are constitutional issues with a focus on election laws as I actually have a lawsuit running in front of the german constitution court regarding the voting age at eureopean elections. Other topics are economic topics due to my studies but also civil liberty topics such as chatcontrol. I´ve already run in several elections like the national one in 2021 and the city council election in nuremberg in 2020. At the moment I am trainee in the european parliament.

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Hello fellow pirates. I am Astrid Abendroth. Member of the Dutch pirates since 2019. Since then I jparticipated in all elections in The Netherlands. With a small success for the Dutch Pirates in 2021 (city council).
I consider me as a generalist and have special interest in medical/pharmaceutical issues. E.g. the drug shortages in relation to patent rights. Alas I am no expert.

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Hi all,
I am Albert Marín from Pirate Party Catalonia. I’m new to pirates, I joined Catalonian Pirate Party two years ago and this last year I’m trying to participate more actively.

I’m interested in all discussion topics but my priorities are ecology, housing and political system.

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Hi all,

my name is Alexander Kohler im the Chairman of the Pirate Party of Bavaria and responsible for Foreign Security Politic and Defence for the Pirate Party Germany for the last 10 years.

  • With my Team we do some Program work and agenda setting with Foreign and Security stuff.
  • I organising Twitter Spaces educating the German public about Geopolitics and Defence.
  • I m responsible for the Pirate Security Conference.
  • Do some Analyses for example Nordstream Energy debacle,
    Ukraine war, and so on.
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Hi everyone,
My name is Zbynek Mucha. I became a member of the Czech Pirate Party in late 2022, but I have officially been affiliated with the party since 2021. I am a vice-chair of one of our local organisations (Zlín), and I engage in PPI and the Czech expert team Europe, Foreign Affairs and Defence. I would like to contribute to the migration section since I have been doing multi-sited research (Bangladesh, Czechia, Poland, and India) on South Asian migration to Europe as a doctoral student since 2018. I closely study EU migration policy, namely its fault-lines in addressing the roots of migrant exploitation, and will be happy contribute to the discussion.

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Hi all,

My name is Danny Werner, born 1956.
A year after I decided to become politically active, I chose to join the Amsterdam Pirates in January 2017.
In several elections since I volunteered to be on the list of candidates and contributed to the program.
I am a pensionado after an ICT career in mainly financial information and payment systems.

Freedom. Keen on human rights in the digital age. Basic needs, including UBI, including affordable care and housing.

Pirates break monopolies.

I like short texts :slight_smile:

Let’s work together towards a good text.

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Hi!

I am Marcel Kolaja and I am coordinator of the Net Policy in the CEEP 2024. I am Quaestor and Member of the European Parliament elected for the Czech Pirate Party. I am also 1st Vice-President of the Czech Pirate Party.

In the European Parliament, I work in the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and Culture and Education standing committees. I also work in the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware and I also worked in the Artificial intelligence in the digital age committee, which was a temporary committee. In my work in the European Parliament I focus mainly on digital topics, media freedom, and transparency.

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Hello,
My name is Theo Haglund and I’m active in the Swedish Pirate Party, in which I have the role of spokesperson on sexual policy. It sounds a bit weird translated to English, but basically refers to policies related to things like sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equality, LGBTI rights, sex workers rights, and so on.

I’ve been involved in the development of several policy areas in the Swedish Pirate Party, and will thus likely be commenting on a wide variety of topics. That said, my area of expertise is sexual policy, in particular trans and intersex rights.

I’ve been told I’m skilled at writing, so if anyone wants any help looking over their texts I’d be happy to help with that as well. I’m fluent in both Swedish and English.

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Hi,

My name is Samuel and I have been working for Pirates in the European Parliament since 2020.

I expect to contribute mostly to the chapter on Drug Policy.

Looking forward to the cooperation!

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My name is Petr Kocourek from the Czech PP & currently a board member of the PPEU.

I have background mainly in economics. Currently, I work as an economist at the Bank of Canada (i.e., the Canadian central bank). Previously, I worked for example shortly for the European Banking Authority (as statistician) or the European Central Bank (in payments infrastructure, only as a trainee though).

In the Czech PP, I collaborate with the “finance” group and the “international affairs” group.

Looking forward to the collaboration!

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Hi I´m Andreas Grätsch , 57 year old, the coordinator of the Drug and Addiction Policy working group of the German Pirate Party. I’ve been a member of the Pirate Party Germany since 2018. In a parliamentary group with Die Linke, I ´m a member on some committees of the Oder-Spree district council in Brandenburg.

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Hello everybody,
my name is Antonia, better known as The_MysticXD. I’ve been a member of the German Pirate Party since 2012. My main focus in politics is inclusion, because I am physically and mentally handicapped. I am the topic officer for inclusion in the German Pirate Party since 2021.

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