Never believe any copyright over five
November 25, 2011 3:47 PM Subscribe
Amelia Andersdotter of
Sweden's Pirate
Party (
Piratpariet) will
finally become the
youngest ever member of the European Parliament this December.
Andersdotter won her seats in
2009, along with and
Christian Engström, when the Pirate Party captured
7% of the vote, but her appointment was
delayed by difficulties with the
Treaty of Lisbon.
As an aside, there is a lovely
Google Tech Talk from 2007 by the Pirate Party's founder,
Rickard Falkvinge, which includes a interesting overview of the evolution of early copyright law and prescient insights into big content's current lobbying efforts, ala SOPA. An interesting figure himself, Falkvinge has grown renown for his unusual leadership style, which includes quickly taking responsibility for mistakes and minimizing his own authority in
favor of
evangelism for the
party.
There have been a handful of local electoral successes by
Pirate Parties in other European nations, with
Piratenpartei Deutschland holding
161 municipal seats and 15 state seats in Berlin, but not yet any Bundestag seats (national parliament).
There are a number of young politicians in national parliaments in northern European countries. Anna Lührmann became a member of Germany's Bundestag in 2002 at age 19. Thor Möger Pedersen became Denmark's Minister of Taxes at age 26. Denmark has a 20 year old MP as well.
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posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:07 PM on November 25, 2011