This post was essentially mirrored from the feddit.nl instance.

Only a Europe that acts together can solve our shared challenges. National parties are reaching their limits. To counteract populist promises and give a home to all Europeans, we created Volt: the first pan-European party. We strive to empower people to change politics and unlock Europe’s potential. Active in already more than 30 countries, we encourage citizens to rethink and shape politics in their cities, in their countries and across borders in Europe.

We are pan-European, pragmatic and progressive. While striving to promote diversity, we come together because of our shared goals and values. We ask the necessary questions and make realistic proposals to solve pan-European challenges.

Co-President: Mels Klabbers and Francesca Romana D’Antuono

Member European Parliament (MEP): Damian Boeselager, Nela Riehl, Kai Tegethoff, Reinier van Lanschot and Anna Strolenberg.

Board Members: Emma Bacci, Lucia Nass, Jennifer Scharpenberg, Luis Afonso Ameida Fernandes, Slavomir Maňásek and Janko Heineken

Treasurer: Christophe Quirynen

Seats European Parliament: 5/720

Seats Cyprus House of Representatives: 1/56

Seats Dutch House of Representatives: 2/150

Seats Dutch Senate: 2/75

Seats Dutch Provincial States: 11/572

Seats Dutch Municipal Councils: 20/8863

No rights may be obtained with the data regarding the seat amounts, especially seats on the regional and local level in countries where there is no proper centralized oversight on said seats, or where a country has thousands of total municipal seats, the data might be incorrect, as such do not immediately assume the data to be correct, this was done on a best-effort basis.

Foundation: 2017-03-29 (29th of March 2017)

Headquarters: Brussels

Amount of members: Estimated 31000 as of March

Political compass: Centre to centre-left

This will vary per chapter on the national, regional and local level, in some instances, a national, regional and/or local chapter may be centre-right instead, each chapter democratically elects it’s own programme (as long it adheres to the European Mapping of Policies, but within it’s confines, there’s flexibility as not every situation is the same, thus election programme’s may differ per Volt chapter.

Political ideologies: Social-liberalism, European federalism, progressivism and pragmatism

European Parliament group: Greens/EFA

Volt Europa intends to found it’s own group, but requires 25 MEP seats in order to do so, hence the strategical choice was made to join Greens/EFA. There was discussion as to why it was chosen over Renew Europe/ALDE, the primary reason is that Greens/EFA is smaller and allows Volt more speaking time, and thus they were chosen, secondary reasons are that Renew never kicked the right populist ANO 2011 (CZ) and Volt does not wish to be in the same group as the VVD currently, due to the current Dutch coalition of NSC, VVD, BBB and PVV.

Party color: Purple

Website: Volt Europa.