Hey! My name is Sven Franck. I was lead candidate for Volt France in the 2024 European elections. Since then, I have moved to Slovenia where I'm helping to launch Volt Slovenia and try to learn the language. On this site, which I'm hacking myself, you can learn more about me and my political priorities. The most active sections are my blog and jumpstartEU - an initiative to find ways to relaunch the European project.

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Today's EU is stuck like a car whose battery died. Europe could be everything we need it to be: a real union, a bastion of democracy, standing up for human rights and the right to self determination within its borders and beyond. An economically integrated union, leading a multi-lateral global economic zone that embraces future technologies, has figured out climate change and provides opportunities for everyone.... Something visionary like that. To make any of this happen, we first have to restart the EU's battery to then drive the project towards all of the above. I have jumped my share of car batteries and with jumpstartEU, I would like to apply jumper cables to the European project to get it back running - by finding political and grassroot angles to push national governments and the European Institutions to commit to reforming the European Union.

Latest blog posts

  • Staring into the abyss - picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Michelle Farsi ©

    Frozen assets: from Moscow with love

    (Sven Franck, )
    The temperature is rising ahead of Thursday's European Council on funding #Ukraine for 2026 and 2027. With the principal question being if and how to "unfreeze" the 210B€ of Russian assets held by Belgian Euroclear to fund Ukraine defense and reconstruction. Both Russia threatening legal action and the US seeking control over spending are pressuring our national leaders to coy. Read the article.

  • Flag waving and then what?

    How about a European Security Strategy?

    (Sven Franck, )
    The last week has been a revelation for transatlantists with the publication of the US #NationalSecurityStrategy and Elon Musk, disgruntled by a 140M€ fine for violating the Digital Service Act, calling for the EU to be dissolved. Europe's response: we're BFF, always have, always will. Really? Read the article.

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I am a member of Volt, a European movement and political party with over 35,000 members in 31 European countries. Together with our elected representatives at European, national and local level, we share a common agenda, one of the pillars of which is to reform the European Union into a federal Europe that is not only an economic union, but also a democratic and political one. Changing politics for the better is a long-term project, a bit like planting a tree. I'm into finding shortcuts to making this tree grow.