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We are launching a comic to explain the European Union. It is designed by Slovenian artist Izar Lunaček and made possible by Sven with the help from the Dutch Volt There Foundation. The two protagonists are Hedge and the Professor, called the “Minis”. In our strip, Hedge has just been elected to the European Parliament and now they discover the European Institutions.

In 2023, the then Dutch finance and first deputy prime minister Sigrid Kaag announced that she would not lead her party into the 2023 elections because of the impact of hatred and threats towards her and her family . Politics unfortunately remains a profession often hostile to women and on this March 8th and international women’s day, it is worth stressing how important contributions from women are for a functioning political system and representative democracy.

Joint statement by Volt UK, Volt France, Volt Greece, Volt Denmark and Volt Slovenia on the recent United Nations Security Council resolution.

Our monthly newsletter with news from Volt Slovenia, across Europe and our web comic.

Slovenia and other small member states are not invited when the future of the EU is discussed.

Our monthly newsletter with news from Volt Slovenia, across Europe and our new web comic.

We wish you a happy and healthy new year 2025! Stay in good spirits and welcome to our monthly Volt Slovenia newsletter.

We are pleased that you are following our activities and developments at home and in Europe.

Slovenia needs a second nuclear power plant for our country’s energy autonomy. But also more transparency.

You are reading our first Volt Slovenia newsletter and we’re very happy to have you among our initial readers.

It has been a few days since Mario Draghi published his report on competitiveness in Europe. Reactions varied from raised eyebrows to the German liberals hyperventilating as the report suggested that Europe's innovation gap, decarbonisation and secure supply chains required increasing the contributions to the European Union to 4-5% of GDP up from its current level of a meager 1.5%.  The report went even further and asked for fundamental reforms to the architecture of the European Union including

Volt gets 5 MEPs in the EU Parliament!