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Press releases, speeches and positions of the council group.

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  • Press release

    The Volt group starts the new term of office ready for action

    Münster, 5 November 2025 – The Volt council group has started the new term of office. At the inaugural council meeting, the organisational foundations for the work of the city council were laid down. Responsibilities and procedures are now clear,…

  • Guter Start in die Koalitionsverhandlungen

    Press release

    A good start to the coalition negotiations

    The Greens, SPD and Volt began negotiations on Thursday evening for a renewal of the town hall coalition. Representatives of the respective council groups and parties met at the Grünes Zentrum to discuss key foundations for the negotiations and the…

  • Luftaufnahme der Justizvollzugsanstalt Münster

    Press release

    Freedom Campus – Münster's “Apprentices' Castle”

    Münster, 8 September 2025 – Two events, one clear picture. At the city's kick-off event at the Ratsgymnasium and at the Volt information stand on Ludgeristraße, everything revolved around affordable housing. Vocational training often remained invisible, even though Münster needs…

  • Bus auf Torminbrücke Münster

    Transport and mobility

    One year of decriminalising fare dodging in Münster – taking stock

    A year ago, Münster City Council decided that fare dodging would no longer be prosecuted as a criminal offence, but only penalised with a penalty fare. The opposition's fears that this would lead to more fare dodging have not materialised:…

  • Hansaring: KEIN Wegfall von Parkplätzen geplant

    Environment and climate

    Hansaring: NO loss of parking spaces planned

    Münster, January 2025 – The Volt council group makes it clear: no car parking spaces will be lost on Hansaring! The motion currently tabled in the APDOSO (Committee for Personnel, Digitalisation, Organisation, Security and Public Order) merely aims to give…