CALLING EUROPE

In the 2020 year review special episode, Eileen and Karam co-moderate an episode for the first time. They talk to Valerie and Reinier, Volteuropa's Co-Presidents, about their personal histories and humble beginnings with Volt and reflect on the impact of Covid on Volt's work. While Reinier is proud of the evolution of Volt Netherlands, Valerie shares her thoughts on the question of the empowerment of women in politics and even sings a song at the end ;).

This time Eileen talks to Vincent Busch. Vincent is responsible for Volt's European Discord acitivities and explains how discord works, why it makes sense for a political party to use a Discord server, especially in pandemic times. Last but not leannst, we learn that on Discord we can definitely compete with very big campaigns. Curious? Then press play!

This time we have a very special episode as we talk with our new Calling Europe project manager Olga Devine from Austria. And it's the first episode, in which we work with translator. That's why it took a little longer this time. Olga (translated by co-host Karam) talks to Eileen about the elections in Vienna, the challenges in Austria and her ideas for the next national elections.

Welcome to episode 13 of Calling Europe, our Pan-European Volt-Podcast and at the same time the third country edition. Today on the microphone: Karam Chehade with her guests Magdalena Houzvickova and Adam Hanka. They talk about how to establish a Volt team from ground up and the challenges for new parties in the Czech Republic, especially when they bring in innovative ideas.

Welcome to episode 12 of our little Pan-European Podcast-Show Calling Europe. Today on the microphone: Karam Chehade with his guest Julia Aniśko. Julia talks about our opportunities as well as the political challenges in Poland and brings us “traditional” polish music a bit closer. As usual you'll find that song in our Pan-European Playlist on Spotify.

Welcome to episode 11 of Calling Europe, our Pan-European Volt-Podcast. In this 2nd country edition you get to know Volt Romania better. Today on the microphone: Eileen O'Sullivan with her guests Mihaela Siritanu and Stefan Florea. They talk about their challenges with getting an official party in Romania, their targets for the next years and finally they chose 2 new songs for our Pan-European Playlist on Spotify.

Welcome to episode 10 of Calling Europe, our Pan-European Volt-Podcast. Today on the microphone: Eileen O'Sullivan with her guest Daniele Latella. Daniele talks about what makes Volt so special, what Basketball has to do with his commitment in politics and why his favourite choice for the "Song of the day" can't be added to our Spotify playlist.

Welcome to episode 9 of Calling Europe, our Pan-European Volt-Podcast. Today we present you our first Country-Edition, a special episode where our moderators talk to representatives from a national Volt Chapter. Today Karam talks to Tabea Wich and Lucas Kornexl from Volt Austria about their upcoming elections in Vienna and of course both of them have the chance to put a song on our Pan-European Playlist on Spotify.

Welcome to episode 8 of Calling Europe, our Pan-European Volt-Podcast. Today on the microphone: Karam Chehade with his guest Ana Carvalho. Ana is the General Secretary of Volt Portugal and talks about her motivation to get involved in politics, her plans for Volt Portugal and what role "the small town" Karlsruhe (Germany) plays in her life.

Hello and welcome to episode 7 of our little podcast show. Today on the microphone: Karam Chehade and his guest Joachim Wilcke. Joachim is part of Damian Boeselager's team, our Member of Parliament in Brussels. He gives us exciting insights into the work of the MEP team, explains how to keep up to date with the work of our MEP's and his team, and has the shortest response time to date for his favorite song.

Hello and welcome to episode 6 of our little podcast show. Today on the microphone: Eileen O'Sullivan talking to Anouk Ooms, our General Secretary. From her we learn how Volt years really count, what challenges we face, how convinced you can be that we can master all our challenges and which song always puts her in a good mood.

Here it is, the 5th edition of our little podcast show Calling Europe. Today Karam Chehade talks to Dan Kniebűgl. Where in Europe he lives, when he joined Volt, what challenges he sees for new parties in Eastern Europe and much more you can find out by clicking on Play.

Welcome to the 4th and even longer episode of Calling Europe. Maybe we should rather not call our podcast today spee podcast ;-). Today Eileen is talking to Xenia Ivanova about her favourite places in Europe, a new idea for a workplace group, the differences between Eastern and Western Europe, the best music for good and bad days and much more.

Welcome to the 3rd and longest episode of Calling Europe so far. Today on the phone with Karam Chehade: Cathal Kerins from Volt Ireland, who is currently living in Berlin and whose favourite place is neither in Germany nor in Ireland. His most important concern: to fight racism in all its forms. Very interesting and really worth hearing. Thanks Cathal for this great Call.

Welcome to the second issue of CALLING EUROPE. Today Karam interviews a guest from Spain: Marie-May de Greslan. She tells us enthusiastically about her #stophomelessness campaign, where her first trip after Corona takes her and we learn which rap artist from France you just have to know.

Guest of Eileen's premiere show today: the future co-host Karam Chehade. He tells how enthusiastic he is about our initiative #EUROPECARES, where you have the best overview of his hometown and which song he would like to play to all the Volters. Your CALLING EUROPE team wishes you a lot of fun listening. Hear you next week!