New politics. A new Europe. / A thriving EU with renewed legitimacy

Establish the right of legislative initiative for the European Parliament

The role of the European Parliament must change from merely co-deciding laws to initiating new legislation - a power that would be shared with the Senate, the EU Citizens via the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) and the European Government. New laws will be proposed by a political group or an equivalent minimum number of individual MEPs that would be required to form a political group.

Read all our policies in our Moonshot programme!

Find out more about how we plan on empowering Europe's path to prosperity and read our full electoral programme for the elections to the European Parliament 2024!

The 5+1 challenges

Volt has defined 5+1 fundamental Challenges that need to be tackled in each European country and in Europe as a whole.

Why 5 + 1 Challenges?

The 5 Challenges are basically the same for every country, but their implementation can be adapted on the national level to take into account local realities.

The +1 Challenge – our proposal to reform and strengthen the EU – is identical across all our national programmes.

View the details of our vision
  • 01

    Smart State

    Education and digitalisation are key elements of the 21st century

  • 02

    Economic Renaissance

    An innovative economy must be the engine of society's progress

  • 03

    Social Equality

    No-one should be left behind - no matter their gender, income, religion. or origin

  • 04

    Global Balance

    Europe needs to assume responsibility for its role in global challenges

  • 05

    Citizen Empowerment

    People must be empowered to influence politics beyond elections alone

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    EU Reform

    We love the EU - this doesn't mean there is no room for improvement