Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺

🌸 Srečen dan žena! Danes praznujemo moč, pogum in dosežke žensk po vsej Evropi in svetu. Ob tej priložnosti vam naše sopredsednice iz Volt strank po vsej Evropi pošiljajo iskrene želje za vesel dan žena. Ženske imajo ključno vlogo pri oblikovanju naše družbe. Tudi v politiki. A pot do enakopravne zastopanosti še ni končana. V Voltu verjamemo, da močnejša prisotnost žensk v politiki pomeni bolj vključujoče, pravične in napredne družbe. Zato si prizadevamo za politiko, kjer imajo ženske enake priložnosti za vodenje, odločanje in ustvarjanje sprememb, od lokalnih skupnosti do evropske ravni. Danes praznujemo dosežke žensk, hkrati pa se zavezujemo, da bomo še naprej gradili Evropo, kjer ima vsaka ženska glas, prostor in moč odločanja. 💜

🌸 Srečen dan žena!

Danes praznujemo moč, pogum in dosežke žensk po vsej Evropi in svetu.

Ženske imajo ključno vlogo pri oblikovanju naše družbe. V Voltu verjamemo, da močnejša prisotnost žensk v politiki pomeni bolj vključujoče, pravične in napredne družbe.💜

the french connection

rapid political positioning across borders howto

the writing is on the wall

Taking a backseat. For the moment

Great first day of the @volteuropa.org Country Council - Volt's better version of the EU Council 🇪🇺

Why better? No unanimity but democratic votes, political alignment and empowering our European leadership.

Thanks @voltberlin.org and @voltdeutschland.org for having us 💪

Who is afraid of the big bad wolf? This week, Germany chancellor Friedrich Merz sided with Donald Trump to call out Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez as the only European leader to take a stand. He since backtracked, but I the don't...

𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗹𝗳?

This week, Germany chancellor Friedrich Merz visited the US siding with Donald Trump to call out Spain's Pedro Sanchez as the only European leader to take a stand. What's next? Will Germany become the 51st state?

👉🏻 Blog post on: svenfranck.eu/en/blog/Who-...

Still working on the collar as usual...

Q&A with our MEP Anna Strolenberg

It's not a protest, it's a team photo

Great to see so many new and familiar faces in Ghent on the @voltbelgium.org Political Congress and how our Belgian chapter and the team of Ghent develops 💪🇪🇺

Well worth the bus ride across Europe with a pillow, toothbrush, laptop and eyerings 😎

Team Ljubljana

Our tech, scientific and cultural perspectives made for a really interesting discussion about Europe, where we are today and where we need to go next.
👉 Can't miss the Ljubljana Meet&Greet of @voltslovenija.org 😊

European media are hooked to US politics like we are hooked to US social media Yesterday, the US president held its State of the Union address at 3am our time. Perfect, because I prefer to sleep than listening to another episode from the Twilight Zone. What's not so perfect is t...

𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗨𝗦 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀

The US president held its State of the Union address at 3am. Perfect, because I prefer to sleep. What's not so perfect is the space Donald Trumps has in European Media this morning. We have our own drama.

👉🏻 Blog post on: svenfranck.eu/en/blog/Euro...

✊ We support Ukraine! Thank you LUkraine.org for hosting this important march!

🇺🇦 Слава Україні! | Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

💜 💙 💛 💜

#ukraine #SlavaUkraini

Volt Kommunalwahl Briefwahl schon beantragt?

📬 Briefwahl in München läuft!

Jetzt Unterlagen beantragen unter briefwahl-muenchen.de oder im KVR abholen.

🗳️ Gewählt werden OB, Stadtrat & Bezirksausschüsse.
Volt tritt für OB & Stadtrat an – im BA 21 gemeinsam mit der ÖDP.

Jetzt beantragen. Informiert wählen. 💜

#VoltMünchen #Kommunalwahl2026

Fabian and his +2, I look the wrong way of course.

Friendly facehugger at the Karneval in Rijeka

Spotted a dragon. Not green as in Ljubljana, but close.

Fabian still recognizeable

Our costumes need work but it was a pleasure to join Fabian Gaukel of @voltdeutschland.org in his official mission to represent Karlsruhe 🇩🇪 at the #karneval 🎭 of its #twinning city Rijeka 🇭🇷

Ljubljana 🇸🇮 is also twinning with Rijeka - we'll work with @voltslovenija.org to attend in the future 😌

The European Council should be called National Council Tomorrow, national leaders retreat to a castle in Belgium to discuss European competitiveness. It will be up to Mario Draghi to foil the plan of Germany and Italy: Both seek for the EU to become more ...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹
Tomorrow, national leaders retreat to a castle in Belgium to discuss #competitiveness.

With no European leaders expected, it will be up to Mario #Draghi to foil the plan of Germany and Italy.

👉🏻 New blog post on: svenfranck.eu/en/blog/The-...

Screenshot of the summary of the arguments by the Commission. Full text in the link

EU tech law

Commission sues Spain for not implementing national law side of the Digital Services Act eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

Das Bild zeigt zehn Wahlplakate von Volt Hessen. Sie sind einheitlich gestaltet mit weißer Schrift auf volt-violettem Hintergrund. Lediglich oben rechts ist ein unregelmäßiges Rechteck ausgespart, in dem in violetter Schrift auf weißem Grund der Schriftzug "Volt" erscheint. Daneben steht das Motto "Europäisch denken, lokal handeln" Die einzelnen Slogans lauten - Anbinden statt Abhängen - App statt Amt - besseres Klima statt heiße Luft - Betreuen ohne Burnout - Fortschritt statt Rechtsruck - gemeinsam statt einsam - Leben statt Leerstand - machen statt meckern - radeln statt dieseln - wohnen statt Wucher

Das sind unsere Wahlplakate. Dahinter steckt mehr als platte Sprüche. Deshalb werden wir in den nächsten Tagen die Forderungen und Positionen vorstellen, die zu diesen Slogans gehören.

#Volt #Kommunalwahl #Hessen #Plakate #MehrAlsPlatteSprüche

I do argue for more or less that in the post 🙂

United in diversity means making open-source mainstream FOSDEM, the world's largest open-source conference took place last weekend in Brussels. The conference organizers announced that they wanted to make FOSDEM more political. Perfect, because it's about ...

𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺

@fosdem.org took place last weekend in Brussels and organizers announced #FOSDEM will become more political - chaos.social/@RichiH/1159....
Perfect, because Europe must take #opensource serious.

👉🏻 Blog post on: svenfranck.eu/en/blog/Unit...

Volt MEP Nela Riehl on the next MFF Budget and tole of culture

With Dave Keating

Last but not least today: the #CulturalDealEU 🇪🇺

Awesome to hear our MEP Nela Riehl give insights on the Parliament's efforts for supporting Culture in the #MFF

Perfect timing to also to talk to David Keating, whose book "The Owned Continent" is timely and to read.

European Citizenship Power Players

I know Suzana Carp since her #voterswithoutborders ECI.

Today she and her ECIT Foundation is launching the new #AllOnBoard ECI. It demands European civic education, mobility. If we want Europe to matter for all citizens, this ECI is an important accellerator.

👉🏻 ecit-foundation.eu/clever-ecit-...

European Power Players

Keynote by Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space

Panel on AI from Edge to Gigafactories which turned out to be a manifest for uniting and integrating Europe.

From #fosdem to the #AI in #Defence Summit to show open-source #MadeInEU is a blessing for digital autonomy and a joint EU military.

Best moment by Alain Wilmouth from 2CRSI for daring to say the obvious: We need a European government.

Let's work on it #jumpstartEU 🇪🇺 with @eurobrat7.bsky.social

#HyWoWa Excited to be at 1st #AIinDefenceSummitt.
Can AI help #EU defend from Putin's #HybridWorldWar?
Can AI defend #EUSovereignDemocracy from #fakes, #deepfakes & #USNSS?
Can it contribute to #EUDemocracyShield?

@volteuropa.org asks for a #EUArmy.
@svenfranck.bsky.social & I will push this.

The future of socia media

Meeting with the DigiCom community of Volt Europa

Great sessions on EU Policy and open source

A long day at #fosdem also meeting fellow Volters from our DigiCom community 🖤.

Great sessions in the Open Source & EU Policy track with the message that change will only happen, if there is public pressure - to apply the #DSA or to prevent breaking #cryptography. Let's work on pressure! 💪🇪🇺

Three is a charm at the Volt Ljubljana Meet&Greet

Almost time to curb the January beard, but great to meet up with our @voltslovenija.org team in #Ljubljana to discuss party registration and upcoming campaigns.

Feeling like nudging politics in Europe, here in Slovenia and on local level in a better direction?
👉 Join us volt.team/simple-join/...

Can the Franco-German couple still lead the European project? The two motors of the European project are at a crossroads: European integration could be a remedy against the far right at home and the threats posed by Putin and Trump. But a stronger Europe would a...

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗼-𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁?

EU integration could be a remedy against the far right and threats posed by Putin and Trump. But a stronger Europe would also mean for France and Germany to take a step back. Why should they?

👉🏻 Blog post: svenfranck.eu/en/blog/Can-...

Cozy in Greece

Happy to have made the short trip to Athens and welcomed by @voltgreece.org who made more than up for the frosty weather and my lack of bringing warm clothes. Thank you for hosting me and "I'll be back" 🇪🇺 🖤 🇬🇷

3rd Conclave team photo

Opening session

Photo after the session with Commissioner Andrius Kubilius

Venue of Conclave at Bruegel

Honored to participate on the 3rd Conclave by
@europanova-be.bsky.social to develop recommendations for EUCO President Antonio Costa

Leaders must realize the power the EU would have if Europe acted as one.

Thank you @guillaumeklossa.bsky.social & @isabellenegrier.bsky.social for the opportunity.

Macron said

This. Europe is only weak, if member states refuse to unite and coordinate.

Switch off social media or put all orders of US weapons on hold until tariffs are lifted? Coordinated sale of US treasuries? Deploying the EU Battlegroup (RDC) to #Greenland .

Let's for once empower #Europe 🇪🇺

Sacha Courtial and Sven Franck

Busy day in Paris but always time for a @voltfrance.org co-presidents of past and present dejeuner.

Thank you for taking the time, @sachacourtial.bsky.social 🙂

𝗜𝗳 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗼, 𝘁𝗼𝗼?

If political leaders would show the same courage as @lexpress.fr to become European, we would already be much further.

👉🏻 Share the idea of L'Express to become an EU newspaper and nudge them a bit.
👉🏻 Soon on www.lexpress.eu

English speaking newspapers don’t seem to have picked up on Trump administration threats of sanctions against judges in current appeals case involving Marine LePen’s indictment regarding European Parliament fund embezzling which could cost her the right to run for president next year.

If Germany can live with Eurobonds, Denmark can pave the way for EU military After the staccato of docile statements from EU and national leaders on Venezuela, Trump has its eyes firmly set on Greenland. Denmark, meanwhile, refused EU and member states military support months ...

𝗜𝗳 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗨 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆

After the staccato of docile statements from EU leaders on #Venezuela, Trump has its eyes set on #Greenland. Denmark refused military support months ago. 👉🏻 Time to reconsider?

👉🏻 Blog post on svenfranck.eu/en/blog/If-G...

Returning to the office in Europe in 2026 means wondering whether our former biggest ally will annex part of an EU/NATO country next, and what the Europeans can (and have the will) to do about it.

First we take Maduro, then we take Greenland? With the US not being coy about its objections to a United Europe one has to wonder when Denmark will loose Greenland or helicopters will exfiltrate Emmanuel Macron after Marine LePen is declared inel...

With the US not being coy about its objectives, one has to wonder when Denmark will loose Greenland or helicopters exfiltrate Emmanuel Macron after Marine LePen is declared ineligible for the presidential elections. Are we ready for MAGA-foreign policy?

👉🏻 Blog post on svenfranck.eu/en/blog/Firs...