The tech-focused Pirate Party has shocked Germany's political establishment by winning nine percent of the vote in Sunday's Berlin state elections. The German branch of the Pirate Party (the ...

Letter from Berlin Who Are the Pirates from Berlin? They are handy with computers and are interested in issues relating to the Internet. Is that all? Many Berliners have been scratching their ...

Berlin’s political elite and Germany’s entertainment industry may have to batten down the hatches after the fledgling Pirate Party notched up a win in the Teutonic capital. The young party won ...

Last Sunday outside of Germany and probably Eastern Europe the feat was ‘uneventful’, but the Pirate party ‘captured’ 15 seats in Berlin’s state assembly with 8.5% of the votes ...

The Pirate Party's electoral gains in the Berlin senate and district elections proved so unexpected it may not have enough candidates to fill all of its seats. In what was an otherwise largely ...

But since winning nearly 9 percent of the vote in Berlin’s elections in 2011, the party has seen a steady downhill trajectory. “Honestly the Pirate Party is dead by now. They should close down ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Among the posters plastered around Berlin ahead of a regional vote on Sunday, the bright colors, unconventional photography and thought-provoking slogans of the Pirate Party ...