Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺

Volt Italia General Assembly with the regional election team and lead candidate.

Can't hide the eye rings of taking the midnight bus to Trieste and first train to Mestre in the morning.

Another weekend, another GA: I represented @voltslovenija.org 🇸🇮 on the @voltitalia.it 🇮🇹 GA in Mestre on Saturady. A great opportunity to connect, build links and I was happy to see many familiar and new faces. Need to work on my Italian. After Slovenian 😌
Good luck for the regional elections 🍀

Sven and Borja meeting over coffee in sunny Bruxelles.

Nothing better than having a @voltslovenija.org 🇸🇮 team coffee and talking national and European politics in Brussels after getting stranded by the train going here and being stranded tomorrow (already announced) heading back by train to #Ljubljana.

We're talking #ChatControl - if the EU Council votes for it, we should be consequent and also abolish paper envelopes, too, because hey, mass surveillance ✉️

Fin des trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Vienne : les raisons de leur arrêt Fin des trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Vienne : les raisons de leur arrêt

Des choix budgétaires difficiles… ouais, 8 millions € de subventions pour les trains de nuit 🚄, mais il faut bien garder l’exemption d’impôts pour le kérosène à hauteur de ~4 milliards € par an ✈️
www.latribune.fr/article/tran...

Sven got another mail-in signature to launch Volt Slovenija.

I love the sight of signatures in the morning 🤠

Send me one aswell to help launch @voltslovenija.org 🇸🇮
👉 Instructions here: voltslovenija.org/storage/glas...

European Groundhog day: will we ever wake up? If you are a Europe aficionado or among the record high population that believes more Europe is kinda warranted, you must also start to believe we are in the equivalent of a European Groundhog day.

European Groundhog day: will we ever wake up?

Every mid September at 9:00 am, the Commission President wakes you up with SOTEU - the state of the European Union address...

👉 New blog post on: svenfranck.eu/en/blog/Euro...

Three generations of Volt France co-presidents.

The purple haze in the streets in Mulhouse.

Fireside chat at the Mulhouse car museum after we lost electricity.

Great 1st day at the @voltfrance.org General Assembly with the future, current and last co-presidents, the Board of @volteuropa.org as well as plenty of political guests. Tops for a real fireside chat 🔥, since we managed to shortcircuit the electricity at our venue. Very Volt 💜

Trouble in France Le terrain du compromis entre lignes politiques a disparu et il faut sacrifier de nombreux Premiers ministres pour le réaliser.

Le terrain du compromis entre lignes politiques a disparu et il faut sacrifier de nombreux Premiers ministres pour le réaliser.

👉 Blog poste sur svenfranck.eu/blog/Trouble...

YouTube video by Frederik Zorn Guts - Trouble In France

You always have to have a song ready...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfvN...

Sur le stand de Volt aux Retrouvailles de Liège avec le maire.

À la Braderie de Lille avec les Volters de Cologne ainis que Sacha et Elisa, les futures coprésidents de Volt France.

Viola, passé par la #BraderieDeLille 🇫🇷 et les #Retrouvailles de Liège 🇧🇪 le même week-end. Beaucoup d’espoir dans des deux côtés de la frontière pour une Europe plus démocratique et puissante (et une meilleure liaison par train 🚅). On y bosse avec @voltfrance.org et @voltbelgium.org 💜

Different colors, same goal, let's get the UK back into the EU. The team from Leeds for Europe on the Braderie in Lille.

4 years ago, we planned with @leedseurope.bsky.social to join to the #BraderiedeLille to show citizens on both sides of the channel that the UK is welcome in the EU
I'm superhappy, you made the trip again. You contribute to being back in hearts already. Let's keep going until you're officially back

Merci d’être venu et d’avoir visité notre stand. Je suis convaincu que nos équipes @voltfrance.org en lice pour les municipales soutiendront également vos propositions, dont plusieurs que nous avions déjà portées à #Lille en 2020 au sein de #LilleVerte (👉 poke, lilledemain.bsky.social)

Braderie de Lille : Sven Franck (aussi) sera samedi sur le stand de Volt C'est officiel depuis longtemps : le ancien leader de Volt France prendra la route depuis la Slovénie ... Presque pour les journaux.

Cela fait longtemps et des kilomètres, mais je ne peux pas rater la #braderie de #Lille 😎

Si vous voulez passer pour bavarder de la Slovénie (pas encore en slovène) et des projets en cours, ce sera un plaisir de vous voir samedi sur le stand de Volt Lille.

Kaja Kallas on the Bled Strategic Forum

me, without beard for a change

Panel on EU Identity: how can culture build resilience in a society in crisis?

red carpet photo

Two great days at the #BledStrategicForum #BSF2025
💚 for Slovenia 🇸🇮 & @nmusar pushing topics & values
💚 great panel on EU identity
💚 EU pep talk from accession candidates
❔ just a timid yes from Kaja Kallas if EU has geopolitical weight
❔ where was western Europe?

Giorgia Meloni and the European Union - no match made in heaven.

It's a fine line to walk for leaders in Meloni's "Europe of Nations": Arranging oneself with Putin while enamoured with Trump. Supporting the EU while plotting to dismantle it.

👉 New blog post "A Europe of Nations? 🤨 No thanks!" svenfranck.eu/en/blog/A-Eu...

(Photo Claudio Peri/EFE)

Hacking on my personal website

Before I started a nightshift of hacking on my website in dire need of an update...

European Parliament sues Council over €150 billion defence loan scheme - Euractiv Eighteen EU countries have already formally expressed interest in taking out SAFE loans

Needlessy sidestepping parliament by declaring everything an emergency... or is @ec.europa.eu afraid, the @europarl.europa.eu will demand member states to actually spend on European #defence instead of only subsidizing their respective national industries.
www.euractiv.com/section/defe...

Many hands on deck in the summer Meet&Greet of Volt Slovenija

Great to see familiar and new faces on our @voltslovenija.org summer Meet&Greet in #ljubljana 💪

We're picking up the pace to register as a political party. Wanna help? 👉 voltslovenia.org/let-s-get-th... and I'm happy to go for a coffee ☕ after you sign at Upravna enota 🇸🇮🇪🇺

EU-ZDA Trgovski sporazum: Kupovanje časa za reforme Evropske Unije? Skupna izjava Volta Avstrija, Češka, Madžarska, Poljska, Slovaška in Slovenija.

Dogovor med EU in ZDA Evropa: 235$ milijard v izvoznem presežku z ZDA 15% carine na izvoz iz Evrope Nakup 700 miljard € energetike iz ZDA 600 miljard € investicij v ZDA Nakup ameriškega orožja ZDA: 148 milijard € v izvoznem presežku storitev v EU 0% Carina na izvoz iz ZDA

Zakaj tako porazen sporazum? Varovanje Gospodarstva Države članice so unijo prisilile v hiter dogovor, zavoljo varovanja svojih državnih gospodarstev, namesto, da bi dali EU več časa da najde rešitev, ki pomaga vsem Evropejcem. Vojaška šibkost Tudi po treh letih vojne v Ukrajini EU ostaja odvisna od NATA. Nimamo evropske poveljniške verige, koordinacije in skupnih javnih naročil. EU se ne more braniti in Trump se tega zaveda. Evropska veriga odločanja Evropski uniji manjka demokratičnega odločanja. Ena država lahko blokira vse, vplivne države članice pa lahko vsiljujejo svoje prioritete.

Čas je, da reformiramo EU! Ostale stranke bodo vedno zaslepljene zgolj z državnim interesom. Volt je edina prava evropska stranka, ki lahko reformira EU. Preberi skupno izjavo vseh centralno evropskih poglavju na naši spletni strani.

Nedavni dogovor med EU in ZDA kaže ceno, ki jo mora Evropa plačati za to, da ostane "Unija le na papirju". Če želimo ostati konkurenčni je reforma EU nujnost. Celotno izjavo o trgovskem sporazumu vseh Volt podružnic iz srednje Evrope si lahko preberete na
👉 voltslovenija.org/news/eu-zda-...

Congrats to the new Board of Volt Austria.

Purrrple pep rally.

Very happy to represent @voltslovenija.org 🇸🇮 at the @voltoesterreich.org 🇦🇹 GA. I'm looking forward to working with the new Board - not only to protest against illegal border controls 👉 #Schengen but to showing together what role smaller EU member states can play to advance the European project 🇪🇺

Za več sladoleda

S 3,5 °C nad povprečjem je bil prejšnji mesec najtoplejši junij, odkar v Sloveniji merimo temperature 🥵

» Za več sladoleda « ne pomeni zgolj več sladoleda 🍨:
👉 Potrebujemo politiko, ki jemlje podnebne spremembe tako resno, kot jemljemo zunanje grožnje.

Pridruži se nam: volt.team/simple-join/sl

For everyone with my level of slovenian fluency, the english version: voltslovenia.org/news/a-refer...

Your friendly traffic management team, always ready to cross the zebra-crossing to halt slow down approaching traffic.

Discussing cheesy internal border controls at our Enschede roadblock.

Certainly the most purple and smiling border patrol guard you will meet in the Netherlands.

Workshop introduction for crossborder politics.

Finally attended my first #BorderBall - the crossborder ⛺️ festival of @voltnederland.org & @voltdeutschland.org
A great moment with dedicated Volters to debate and have fun and an event to copy across Europe to reduce artificial borders other parties are erecting #DontTouchMySchengen 🚧

Smart move in retrospect to get married on statehood day. Easy to remember 😎

Izrael znova krši mednarodno pravo...

Naše gibanje seveda ne podpira iranskega režima niti njihovega jedrskega programa.

Vendar napadi na vojaške cilje nikakor niso upravičeni.

Prišel je čas, da zgradimo Evropo, ki bo odločno varovala mednarodno pravo.

Še ena vojna, še en udarec mednarodnemu redu. EU 🇪🇺 mora nastopiti enotno – z lastno zunanjo politiko, ki upošteva stališča vseh držav članic.
Od Estonije do Slovenije, zgraditi je treba močno Evropo, ki spoštuje mednarodno pravo, človekove pravice in raznolikost.
👉 Join us: volt.team/simple-join/sl

Headless on every preview...

Sitting at the airport coffee listening to a british lady wondering whether Istanbul was in Germany. Sigh 😖 .... #brexit

and after fingernails, now time to pull hair out 😖

Polish presidential election exit poll shows a dead heat Liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski is slightly ahead of nationalist Karol Nawrocki, but within the exit poll’s margin of error.

50.3% vs 49.7%... wondering how long fingernails last 🤔
www.politico.eu/article/libe...

Von der Leyen awarded Charlemagne Prize for promoting European unity In her acceptance speech, Ursula von der Leyen outlined key priorities for Europe’s future: stronger defence, greater innovation, EU enlargement and the protection of democracy and resilience. #Europe...

Might as well give Donald Trump the Nobel peace prize then 😒
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...