Category: Press Releases

Dec 05

Mitsotakistan: A Banana Republic Built on Kompromat

  • 05.12.2025

Το έμβλημα του Κόμματος Πειρατών Ελλάδας The emblem of the Pirate Party of Greece

Through the excellent reportage work of Inside Story and Haaretz, as well as through three rock-solid technical reports, there is strong evidence that all employees of the Israeli spyware developer Intellexa had access to every information that its kompromat (compromising information collected for use in blackmailing, discrediting, or manipulating someone, typically for political purposes) collection suite Predator scooped up from its targets’ infected devices.

The Intellexa Leaks (By Aron Ehrlich, Haaretz)
Image Credit: Aron Ehrlich, Haaretz

Numerous politicians, businesspersons, journalists in Greece were targeted by this malware; so did the country’s military leadership, as well as many in the judiciary. To make matters worse, thousands of citizens became “collateral damage” in all of this, through their regular, casual, work-mandated, and/or incidental contact with the main targets. All this, by order of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis – and his entire party condoned this.

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Sep 25

The Rethymno Declaration

  • 25.09.2025

Has been uploaded here, along with our other ideological documents. Posted here for publicity reasons and as a courtesy to fellow Pirates.

Το έμβλημα του Κόμματος Πειρατών Ελλάδας The emblem of the Pirate Party of Greece

For a New Pirate Movement – Political, Ideological, and Programmatic Declaration of the Pirate Party of Greece

Rethymno, June 2025

We are living in extremely dark times. The hardcore far-right marches on incessantly, fueled by vast amounts of money offered to it by neo-fascist multi-billionaire oligarchs, hell-bent on undoing all political and social progress that took place since the Enlightenment. To propagandize their ideology, they have leveraged eager scribes in their corporate media, flanked by much-advertised think tanks that operate on dark money and plant their pundits in the largest universities. A further, more recent, addition to this crowd is a host of various depraved influencers, who preach hate and misanthropy. The imposition of neo-fascist rhetoric as the only acceptable frame for public speech is overseen by Gauleiter in the monopolistic social networks and each nation’s judiciary.

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Aug 12

The Pirate Party of Greece officially adopts the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism

  • 12.08.2025

Composite image displaying the emblem of the Pirate Party of Greece on the left and the logo of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA) on the right.

The Pirate Party of Greece (PPGR), true to the Pirate Ideology’s principles, recognizes the need to clearly and unequivocally fight and condemn antisemitism. Antisemitism has been the basis for many centuries of brutal discrimination and murderous persecution against the Jews, which peaked with the Holocaust.  

In our Statutes,[1] we explicitly and unequivocally declare our dedication to the protection of human rights for all, without exceptions and/or conditions – regardless of race, religion, origin, gender identity-expression etc., exactly as dictated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the UN General Assembly and by the European Convention on Human rights. Our stance is reaffirmed in our other fundamental texts: our Founding Declaration,[2] our Prinicples,[3] and the Rethymno Declaration.[4]

We incorporate our fight against antisemitism in our general fight against racism. If humankind must learn one thing from the Holocaust and all other genocides is that “Never Again” must mean “Never Again for Anyone”. To us, human rights are universal, inalienable, and cannot be subject to negotiations. Thus, we are not going to treat the fight against antisemitism as incompatible with, or as competitive to the fight for the rights of the Palestinian people – or any other people. 

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Jul 10

Anti-Choice “Loopholes” in Medical Codes of Ethics: The Case of Greece and Our Position

  • 10.07.2025

This Press Release is an adaptation from the Greek-language original, published on 17.04.2025.

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The Greek Medical Code of Ethics (Law 3481/2005)[1] has several deeply problematic provisions which prioritize a doctor’s “conscience” (i.e. the doctor’s religious beliefs) over the patient’s rights, and especially the rights of women and LGBTQI+ persons. We quote and explain these provisions below, translated by our team: 

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