Key facts
- Abbreviation
- Volt
- President
- Francesca Romana D'Antuono ( IT ), co-president, Mels Klabbers ( NL ), co-president
- Founded
- 29 March 2017 ; 9 years ago ( 2017-03-29 )
- Headquarters
- Boulevard Bischoffsheim n° 39 boîte 4, 1000 Brussels , Belgium
- Youth wing
- Volt Violet
- Membership 2026
- 34,000
- Ideology
- European federalism Pan-Europeanism Progressivism Social liberalism
- Political position
- Centre to centre-left
- European parliament group
- Greens/EFA (since 2019)
- Colours
- Purple
- European parliament
- 5 / 720
- European commission
- 0 / 27
- European council
- 0 / 27
- European lower houses
- 1 / 6,217
- European upper houses
- 2 / 1,458
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Volt Europa (known mononymously as Volt) is a transnational pro-European and federalist European political movement. It operates as a pan-European umbrella for subsidiary parties sharing the same name and branding.
Volt aligns its political positions across Europe, presenting a common, pan-European manifesto. In the 2019 European Parliament elections, Volt ran in eight member states with a shared platform, emphasising solutions to supranational challenges, such as climate change, defense, energy policy, migration, economic inequality, terrorism, welfare, and the technological evolution of the labor market. The party advocates for a stronger, more integrated European Union, with the long-term goal of creating a federal Europe. Additionally, Volt endorses the formation of a European army, joint European debt and taxes, nuclear energy including the construction of new nuclear power plants, and stronger economic solidarity between the EU member states.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Volt Europa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.