Haven't found any mention of this:
Tonight the Swedish Pirate Party gained at least on seat in the European Parlaiment.
Here's some info from Wikipedia:
The Pirate Party (Swedish: Piratpartiet) is a political party in Sweden. It strives to reform laws regarding copyright and patents. The agenda also includes support for a strengthening of the right to privacy, both on the Internet and in everyday life, and the transparency of state administration.[1] The Party has intentionally chosen to be bloc independent on the traditional left-right scale[2] to pursue their political agenda with all mainstream parties. The Pirate Party is the third largest political party in Sweden in terms of membership. Its sudden popularity has given rise to parties with the same name and similar goals in Europe and worldwide.
The Party participated in the 2006 Riksdag elections and gained 0.63% of the votes making them the third largest party outside parliament, where a minimum of 4% is required. In terms of membership, it passed the Green Party in December 2008, the Left Party in February 2009, the Liberal Party and the Christian Democrats in April 2009, and the Centre Party in May 2009, making it the third largest political party in Sweden. The Pirate Party's associated youth organization, Young Pirate (Swedish: Ung Pirat), is now the largest political youth organization in Sweden by membership count.
The Pirate Party got 7.1% in the 2009 European Parliament elections, which will result in one seat in parliament.[5]
This last year we've had a number of scandals involving wiretapping, undue political influence during the trial of the founders of The Pirate Bay and the decision of the Swedish Government to introduce harsher then necessary measures when implementing the IPRED-directive.
All of this has combined to make the Pirate Party the single largest party in the group 18-30 year olds.
Parliamentary elections are next year and it will be interesting to see if the Pirate Party will gain any seats there.
First on the new MEPs agenda is the European Telecommunications package, which was recently blocked in the parliament. Then it will be ACTA-negotiations where the US is pushing for harsher punishment for copyright violation. We also have the Data retention directive which directs all ISPs and Phone companies to retain traffic data for at least 6 months, something which is against both Swedish Law and the convention of human rights.