The Pirate Party stands for a free democracy in which all the knowledge, art and culture that humanity has produced is readily available to everyone. The corona crisis shows how important it is to share knowledge in freedom. We would rather invest in good public facilities, such as testing capacity, source and contact research, and sufficient health care personnel, than curtail civil rights and freedoms. We start from trust in people, and have a healthy distrust of concentrations of power in governments and companies. In a free information society, we make the wisest choices together.

Civil rights guarantee personal freedoms and protect citizens from arbitrariness by governments or corporations. Civil rights are the foundations of our movement. Making concessions to civil rights means making concessions to the foundations of democracy. As the Pirate Party we always test all our actions against these basic civil rights.

An open and transparent government is a basic condition for a good democracy. Only when citizens can question the functioning of its government and when they can control it is good popular representation possible.

Democracy is having a say and making decisions about our society. In a democracy everyone has a voice and is heard. We want everyone to have the opportunity to participate in the decision-making process. In this way, we utilize all the knowledge, experience and expertise in our society.

Free access to information, knowledge and culture is a prerequisite for the social, technological and economic development of our society. The current copyright and patent laws create information monopolies that only benefit large corporations, are an obstacle to this access. We therefore want to thoroughly reform these laws.