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 ✉️

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...

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? 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...

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 💜

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...

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

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 💜

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)

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.

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?

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)

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

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...

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 🇸🇮🇪🇺

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-...

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 🇪🇺

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...

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 😎

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

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

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

As climate change bears down, bringing heatwaves, droughts and sudden bursts of torrential rain, much of Europe’s water infrastructure — increasingly unfit even for normal conditions — is dangerously underprepared for the coming storm.

Ta konec tedna je @voltdeutschland.org 🇩🇪 izvolil nov izvršni odbor. Nas veseli, da je bila z Victorio Fridau v odbor Volta Nemčija prvič izvoljena tudi državljanka Slovenije 🇸🇮. Novemu nemškemu odboru želimo vse najboljše v novem mandatu in se veselimo tesnejšega sodelovanja v prihodnosti 💪🇪🇺

Opportunities for Germany.

J'imagine des masques #anonymous à l'effigie d'Ursula vdL pour la #Pride de #Budapest 🌈 une protection contre la reconnaissance faciale, des milliers d’«Ursula» dans les rues et des citoyen·ne·s qui se mobilisent quand la présidente de la Commission se cache... www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

Whether the ECI to ban conversion practices or #Eurovision #ESC2025, good things can happen if we vote united in Europe. We need show up at the ballot box in #Portugal 🇵🇹, #Poland 🇵🇱 and #Romania 🇷🇴 today to defend our "🇪🇺 vision". Spread the word, go vote! www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

980.000 as I write. Almost there 💪

Por mais 🇵🇹 #HabitaçãoAcessível, #votaVolt #legislativas2025 @voltportugal.org 💪

Volt Paris 🎉 Rejoignez-nous pour une soirée d'échanges exceptionnelle autour du rapport de Barbara Pompili. Jeudi 15 mai 2025, de 19h à 21h à l'Assemblée nationale, 126, rue de l'Université - 75007 Paris (1er bureau) Prenez votre place en vous inscrivant dans le lien dans le linktree !

Az Európa Nap alkalmából a hétvégén a magyar Volt csapatából is összejöttünk néhányan Budapesten. 🇭🇺🇪🇺 Egy olyan jövőért dolgozunk, amiben egyszerre lehetünk büszke magyarok és európaiak is! 💜 #volthungary #volteuropa #futuremadeineurope #europe #európanap #magyarország #magyar #hungary

Yay, it's #May9th, #EuropeDay! Time to swallow our blue pill to take solace as national parties will wave blue flags demanding a stronger EU. Or, you could call the charade and acknowledge that with national parties, Europe is not gonna happen. Time for a red pill to reset the European project 🇪🇺

That was an artistic afternoon...

Sunday morning arriving via from Nice 🇫🇷, Sunday afternoon at our 1st @voltslovenija.org retreat in Velenje 🇸🇮. 🥱 Tired but happy we had an afternoon to plan our signature collection, registering as a party and then some 💜 Join us: volt.team/simple-join/sl

Like him or not... wtf. Ich dachte, öffentliches Demütigen gibts nur im Oval Office und nicht im #Bundestag - guter Stil geht anders und die Demokratie muss es ausbaden. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

🎉 Toomas Hendrik Ilves, nekdanji predsednik Estonije, se je pridružil Voltu! Toomas je: – zaslužen za vstop Estonije v EU – pionir Estonske digitalizacije – glas za Evropo, ki brani razsvetljenske vrednote Dobrodošel med nami!💜 #Estonia #Volt #EU

Can't miss our #May1st and la Louche d'Or in #Lille #Wazemmes. 50 liters of purple gaspacho and plenty of great discussions about Volt and life in Slovenia 🇸🇮 later, I'm off to Paris, Nice and then back to LJ.

📅 1. maj – misliš, da je boj za delavske pravice stvar preteklosti? Pomisli še enkrat! Ob vse hitrejšem razvoju UI in rastočih cenah moramo znova stopiti skupaj za pravice delavk in delavcev. ✊ Le s pravičnim gospodarstvom lahko ohranimo demokracijo! #MayDay2025

Let's get the party started! 🥳 N⁰ 1/200 signatures to officially launch @voltslovenija.org 🇸🇰🇪🇺 Pridruži se 👉 volt.team/simple-join/sl and #ImagineSlovenia

I sit in language class with two priests from Vietnam and am always surprised by their positive spirit and kindness. #PopeFrancis made the same impression to me. We can all make the world a better place in our own ways. #RestInPeace

🚴‍♂️💫 Dnes slavíme #BicycleDay – den, kdy Albert Hofmann poprvé zažil účinky LSD při legendární jízdě na kole. 🍄 Psychedelika jako LSD, MDMA či psilocybin pomáhají lidem s úzkostí či PTSD. Ve Voltu usilujeme o jejich bezpečnou a legální dostupnost. 💜

Our democracy and digital rights are not a currency in a trade war!! Join us tomorrow at 13h at Schuman/Archimède to give a clear message to the @ec.europa.eu to strictly and fully apply the law on Big Tech! 💪🗣️🇪🇺 www.politico.eu/article/big-...

"nobody in Europe is even casually implying they will invade other countries.There is no Brussels quip about turning an unwilling neighbour into “our 28th state” (on the contrary, many of the eu’s neighbours are desperate to join the club)" www.economist.com/europe/2025/... Top Charlemagne column