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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Who is afraid of the big bad wolf?
(Sven Franck, )
This week, Germany chancellor Friedrich Merz paid a visit to the US President. Before, he condemned the Iranian attacks on neighboring countries with Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron without putting a question mark behind the US and Israel's justification for setting fire to the Middle East. He also 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 see a real strategy here aside from Germany maybe wanting to become the 51st US State. Read the article. -
European media are hooked to US politics like we are hooked to US social media
(Sven Franck, )
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 the space Donald Trumps has in European media this morning. If we want to lift Europe on par with the US, shouldn't our media start giving more visibility to what's happening at home. It's not like we don't have drama... 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.