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The Europeans | European news, politics and culture

Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.8 • 162 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We tend to talk about freedom of movement within the EU as an abstract concept. In reality, moving to a new place involves a million little moments of awkwardness, sweetness, and human vulnerability. This week, we bring you a story of what freedom of movement actually felt like, for a 14-year-old Romanian moving to Germany. This is the second episode from our series This Is What A Generation Sounds Like: intimate stories from young Europeans across the continent. A beautiful visual version of this podcast will be available soon! In the meantime, check out the first visual podcast in this series: Josh and Franco. This series is produced with Are We Europe and made in cooperation with Allianz Kulturstiftung, an independent not-for-profit cultural foundation committed to strengthening cohesion in Europe using the tools of art and culture. Find out more at kulturstiftung.allianz.de. Producers: Andrei Popoviciu and Denisa Harbuz Sound design: Andrei Popoviciu and Katz Laszlo Editorial support: Katz Laszlo, Katy Lee, Dominic Kraemer and Priyanka Shankar Music: Sat după sat by Robin and the Backstabbers; Limba Română and Frunzuliță, iarbă deasă by Subcarpați; Lavalamp by Phish Funk; Romcom and Days and Days by Gustav Kemps; The Way To Romania by She Said Destroy!; Chaos at the Spaceship by Out Of Flux; Follow The River by Delnova; Jim Barne. Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions and Artlist. SFX from Freesound.org. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few euros / dollars / pounds a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast. You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review. This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family. Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | hello@europeanspodcast.com

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0:00.0	This podcast was made in cooperation with Allianz Culture Stifner,
0:05.0	an independent not-for-profit cultural foundation,
0:09.6	committed to strengthening cohesion in Europe using the tools of art and culture. Hello, Dominique.
0:39.2	Hi.
0:40.1	We've got a story for you this week about migrating.
0:43.5	You and me are both immigrants.
0:44.8	We both moved in our 20s to countries that we weren't born in.
0:48.4	And I don't think very often about the fact that it was a policy that made it easy for us to do that. This policy of freedom
0:55.6	of movement, whereby, as EU citizens at the time, we were both just allowed to upstick some
1:02.0	move to another European country. No questions asked. Sadly, something that will be a lot harder
1:07.0	for young Brits coming after us. Yeah, it was definitely a privilege that I took for granted
1:11.0	at the time. But I think what I'm trying to say is that when we talk about freedom of movement
1:15.9	as a concept, it often seems quite abstract. And yet this is a policy that millions of Europeans
1:22.3	have used to start new lives and new places and make new friends and fall in love with people.
1:28.3	It is an incredibly exciting thing to do.
1:31.4	It can also be difficult and frustrating.
1:34.4	And there are countless little embarrassing moments of cultural misunderstanding when you migrate.
1:39.7	And I feel like when we talk about freedom of movement in the abstract,
1:44.2	it doesn't really capture the humanity of that.
1:47.0	Well, this week we are going to try to capture some of it.
1:51.7	We are bringing you a beautifully told story of one person's experience of freedom of movement within the EU,
1:58.3	moving to Germany from Romania as a 14-year-old.
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