| Office: | Co-President of Volt France |
| Party: | Volt (since 2018) |
| Term Start: | 2021 |
| Term End: | 2023 |
| Education: | Diploma and Master's degree in business administration |
| Alma Mater: | University of Regensburg Murray State University |
| Birth Place: | Erlangen |
| Birth Date: | 1976 |
| Residence: | Lille |
| Nationality: | German |
Sven Franck (* 1976 in Erlangen) is a French politician (Volt) from Germany. From 2021 to 2023 he was co-chair of this party together with Fabiola Conti and was elected top candidate for the 2024 European elections in October 2023.
Franck was born in Erlangen in 1976 and grew up in Bayreuth.[1] [2] After graduating from high school, he studied business administration at the University of Regensburg from 1997 to 2002 with a focus on marketing, financing and innovation management, graduating with a diploma. He also studied business administration at Murray State University from 1999 to 2000 and completed his studies with a master's degree. After completing his studies, Franck initially worked in his parents' family business in the swimwear industry from 2003 to 2009 before founding a start-up in the IT industry. In 2012, he moved to Lille and joined the open source software company Nexedi SA, where Franck has since worked as a project manager for research projects and marketing manager.[3] [4]
Franck joined Volt France in 2018 to counter populism and the far right.[5] In 2020 he ran in the local elections with Volt as part of the LilleVerte2020 alliance together with EELV, Génération.s, Génération Écologie and Diem25[6] and was active in the political college of the district council from 2020 to 2023. In 2021, Franck was elected co-chair of the party together with Fabiola Conti[7] and became the top candidate for the 2024 European elections in October 2023.
In order to reduce the European Union's dependence on its member states, Franck advocates the provision of independent financing options for the EU institutions and suggested various options such as a European corporate tax, a European solidarity surcharge based on Germany's model or a Carbon tax on EU Level based on the French model.[8]
The French seat on the UN Security Council is to be handed over to the EU in the medium term so that it can be on an equal footing with the USA, Russia and China. The European Treaties should be opened up to enable EU reforms.[9]
Franck is committed to open source solutions in the area of digitalization. He sees this as a prerequisite for interoperability.[10] With regard to Gaia-X, Franck warned that opening the project to the world's largest technology companies could weaken European technology providers and thus miss the goal of strengthening the European digital ecosystem and European sovereignty. He sees the development of artificial intelligence as an opportunity for translations in real time, so that everyone can retain their native language in international exchange and thereby preserve linguistic richness.
Franck is married to a Slovenian woman.[11] He is on the board of the association for the town twinning between Lille, Cologne and Erfurt.