Sven FRANCK
#jumpstartEU
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.
Projects
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
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Trouble in France
(Sven Franck, )
After Prime Minister Bayrou's budget-harakiri, President Macron quickly appointed Sébastien Lecornu as new prime minister. One has to wonder how many aces he has left in his sleeve considering passing a similar budget will likely mean a similar fate for the new prime minister. Read the article. -
A Europe of Nations? 🤨 No thanks!
(Sven Franck, )
Giorgia Meloni did not want the spotlight to be stolen from her at the recent Rimini Meeting. Contrary to Mario Draghi pleading for European integration she was championing a Europe of Nations. As if more of the status quo is suddenly the solution. Read the article.
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.