Our approach
The EU must be empowered to defend its security against every thread and every field. For this it is necessary to better integrate the armed forces of the member states and to create the necessary basis for this at EU level. The distant goal here is a common European army under the legal control of the EU Parliament.
Due to a changing world situation, pirates support an independent and capable defense industry. At the same time, however, the export of weapons, technologies and dual-use goods must be handled restrictively, since these systems and technologies can also be used contrary to international law and also against the EU itself and its interests.
In order to be able to better counter hybrid threats and disruptive changes in the geopolitical situation, it is necessary to create an Interdisciplinary security council. This EU Security Council, which shall be under parliamentary control, should analyze the security situation and threats across the board and coordinate and control security efforts. This Council should be used to identify threats and build up capacities to be able to fulfill the tasks. Resilience against disinformation, cyber warfare, economic warfare to strengthend. Dependencies of supply chains, energy and critical raw materials must be sustainably reduced.
Pirates reject the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and support the motivation for their gradual elimination from the arsenals of countries that possess them. Pirates support initiatives to ban the use of lethal autonomous weapon systems, while preserving the ability to research emerging technologies.
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. Conflict resolution has to be based on respect for International Law.