TOGETHER APART | Svante's story: Starting a family during the pandemic
Channel: Europe In Your Language
Date: 24/04/2023

The pandemic shattered Svante’s dream of having a big wedding and celebrating his 30th birthday with a trip to Italy. Instead, he stayed in Sweden and had to cancel the big event he had planned. But there was one dream he was not ready to give up on: starting a family. What particular challenges did he face? 

Watch Svante tell his story in the interview he gave for ‘Together apart’ in June 2021.

Watch the story on the My House of European History platform: https://my-european-history.ep.eu/myhouse/story/1685/en 

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‘Together apart. Mobility in times of COVID-19’ is a collection of personal testimonies about how different people experienced the COVID-19 pandemic and especially how it impacted their ability to move freely. 

It is a project developed jointly by the European Parliament’s ‘My House of European History’ online platform and the House of European History museum. Fifteen people from Italy, Romania and Sweden, at different stages of their lives, share how lockdown and COVID-19 restrictions changed their daily lives following the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020. 

You can find and watch their stories in all 24 EU languages on the ‘My House of European History’ platform.