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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · 5d

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 🍀

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.

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · 13d

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.

Sven and Borja meeting over coffee in sunny Bruxelles.

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · 18d

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 ✉️

Volt Slovenjia @voltslovenija.org · 18d

»Zakaj potem ne ukinemo tudi papirnatih ovojnic? Če privzamemo, da smo vsi krivi, je potrebno prebirati tudi pisma, še preden jih pošljemo« je dejal Tilen Drager iz @voltslovenija.org - #chatcontrol #slovenija

www.delo.si/novice/znano...

Orwellovska prihodnost: EU želi imeti pregled nad vso spletno komunikacijo

Sporni predlog EU Chat Control, ki uvaja množični nadzor, deli Evropo. Kritiki svarijo pred koncem zasebnosti, usoda zakonodaje pa je še negotova.

www.delo.si

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · 18d

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...

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

www.latribune.fr

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · 23d

I love the sight of signatures in the morning 🤠

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

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

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · 28d

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...

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.

svenfranck.eu

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Sep 14

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 💜

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.

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Sep 10

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...

Trouble in France

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

svenfranck.eu

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

Guts - Trouble In France

YouTube video by Frederik Zorn

www.youtube.com

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Sep 7

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 💜

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.

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Sep 6

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

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

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Sep 6

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)

Patrick Badard @patrick-badard.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ce week-end, à la "grande braderie" de Lille, on a parlé d'Europe et de la campagne de @sauvonsleurope.bsky.social pour une Union européenne des territoires avec @svenfranck.bsky.social de @voltfrance.org !

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Sep 5

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.

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.

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Sep 2

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?

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

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Aug 31

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)

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

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Aug 21

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...

European Parliament sues Council over €150 billion defence loan scheme - Euractiv

Eighteen EU countries have already formally expressed interest in taking out SAFE loans

www.euractiv.com

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Aug 13

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 🇸🇮🇪🇺

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

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Volt Slovenjia @voltslovenija.org · Aug 10

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-...

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.

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Jul 19

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 🇪🇺

Congrats to the new Board of Volt Austria.

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Volt Slovenjia @voltslovenija.org · Jul 15

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

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Jul 1

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 🚧

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.

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Sven Franck (Volt) 🇪🇺 @svenfranck.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

Volt Slovenjia @voltslovenija.org · Jun 25

Vse najboljše Slovenija 🇸🇮
Naj tokovi globalnih sprememb ostanejo do nas prijazni in omogočijo naši državi varno pot med čermi; kdor koli je na oblasti, naj delamo skupaj za boljše življenje vseh nas, od mesta do podeželja, znotraj Slovenije in znotraj evropske družine, danes in za vse prihodnje čase

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Volt Slovenjia @voltslovenija.org · Jun 19

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

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.

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