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15/04/2024

170 Years of the Gernikako Arbola

By Iñaki Lopez de Luziriaga

by Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga Last 26 November, Gernikako Arbola’s 170th anniversary celebration was held in the town of Urretxu, Basque Country. The Basque anthem is the most successful song delivered by the singer songwriter Jose Mari Iparragirre. Before its commemoration, several articles were p...

30/08/2023

Comics in Basque Making Their Way

By Harri X. Fernandez Iturralde

by Harri X. Fernandez Iturralde Gregorio Muro, Joseba Larratxe and Dani Fano, three authors from different generations of Basque comics talk about this emerging sector. The health of a culture and a language is measured by the number of its speakers or consumers, but also, of course, by the supply o...

04/06/2023

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The Basques Voted Again

By Iñaki Galdos Irazabal

by Iñaki Galdos Irazabal Every four years, on the fourth Sunday of May, the Basques of the four provinces of Hegoalde (The Southern Basque Country) are called to vote to elect their city council members and the provincial parliaments in the case of the three provinces of the Basque Autonomous Count...

18/05/2023

The Sociolinguistic Survey, which has been reflecting the social evolution of the Basque language for three decades, reaffirms the changes of recent years and highlights the relevance of some trends. by Nerea Azurmendi Zabaleta Thirty years may seem like an insufficient amount of time to determine t...

18/05/2023

The Basque Language Gains Speakers, but No Surge in Usage

The Sociolinguistic Survey, which has been reflecting the social evolution of the Basque language for three decades, reaffirms the changes of recent years and highlights the relevance of some trends. by Nerea Azurmendi Zabaleta Thirty years may seem like an insufficient amount of time to determine t...

06/12/2022

Los Xey, from the Basque Country to Broadway… and Back

By Harri Fernández

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08/11/2022

The Basque Language and Culture ere Presentvin Quebec. By AitorAzurki

08/11/2022

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Basque Language and Culture eae Present in Quebec. By Aitor Azurki

First there was the cultural and artistic program Scotland goes Basque in 2019 and now, Saison Québec – Pays Basque in 2021 and 2022.

24/06/2022

The Zero Gravity of the Other Great Museum of Bilbao.

By Amaia Santana

by Amaia Santana Agravitas is the name used by architects Norman Foster and Luis María Uriarte to baptize the expansion project of the Fine Arts Museum of Bilbao, "the most ambitious since the construction of the modern building in 1970," according to the director of the art gallery, Miguel Zugaza....

06/04/2022

"As a Sport Jai-Alai Has Not Been Attractive in the Usa"

Juan Ignazio Zulaika

By Iñaki Galdos Irazabal

by Iñaki Galdos Irazabal Juan Inazio Zulaika (born in Andoain in 1956) was a Jai-Alai player who made his professional debut at the age of 14 in Zaragoza (Spain). Then he played in Milan (Italy) and Barcelona (Catalonia), before crossing the pond and playing for 15 years in the USA, 8 in Florida an...

17/02/2022

The Basque Language, Fighting against the Supremacism of French

By Idoia Eraso

by Idoia Eraso The French Constitutional Court declared last May 2021 that the system offering education entirely in a minority language is unconstitutional. This decision caused such a social and political stir, that the Ministry of Education was forced to back down. It did so through a notice publ...

11/12/2021

"Operation Boise": Bombs for Intruders

By Iñaki Galdos Irazabal

by Iñaki Galdos Irazabal On September 2nd, 1974, a large group of Americans from Boise, Idaho, arrived in Oñati, led by Professor Pat Bieter, with the aim of spending an academic year in that town in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa. The group was not exactly homogeneous, because many of them were ...

27/07/2021

Basque Design Proving its Worth

By Aitor Azurki

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Culture and industry in the Basque Country are two worlds that have remained isolated from each other for a long time. The same is true of intangible heritage and design, two deep-rooted disciplines that have hardly been studied together. From the publication of the book Hemendik (From Here), which....

16/07/2021

Iparralde: The Majority is Strengthened and the Sovereigntist left improves results- By Maite Ubiria Beaumont

by Maite Ubiria Beaumont The departmental and regional elections held in France, and also in Iparralde (the Northern Basque Country), have not brought about significant changes but have confirmed some of the tendencies that have been shaping the Basque framework in the last decade. The Basque Countr...

25/06/2021

Teh Basque Country is Committed to Green Hydrogen. By Xabier Aja
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by Xabier Aja The Basque Country is characterized by a highly qualified industrial network in the energy sector, especially in clean renewable energies. The Basque Country is home to leading companies in the sector with a wide presence in international markets such as Iberdrola, Siemens-Gamesa, Sene...

11/05/2021

Euskadi Gaztea – the Strengthening of the Basque Musical Mainstream. By Harri X. Fernandez Iturralde

Thirty-one years ago, Basque public radio-television (EITB) decided to establish a radio station for a young audience and to become a voice for the Basque scene by Harri Fernandez Iturralde It's March 1990, 31 years ago. A young man turns on the radio and dials to a new station, a station where Aito...

05/04/2021

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by Iñaki Galdos Irazabal On April 18, 2020, the final of the King’s Cup of Spanish football.  was to be played in the city of Seville. Thousands of Basques had already completely booked all of the hotels, flats, apartments and hostels of the capital of Andalusia, as well as in the neighboring to...

29/03/2021

A Basque Final in Seville

by Iñaki Galdos Irazabal On April 18, 2020, the final of the King’s Cup of Spanish football.  was to be played in the city of Seville. Thousands of Basques had already completely booked all of the hotels, flats, apartments and hostels of the capital of Andalusia, as well as in the neighboring to...

01/02/2021

An Anthem for the Basques

by Iñaki Galdos Irazabal This past August 12th, an important group of Basque musicians made public in Pamplona a statement proposing that the song Gernikako Arbola (the tree of Gernika) be recognized as the anthem of the Basque Country. The date chosen for the event was not by chance, it was the 20...