Ortuzar at the Aberri Eguna: “Our challenge today is to protect the Basque Country‘s autonomy from potential threats in order to build on what we have already achieved”

The chairman of EAJ-PNV‘s central committee, the Euzkadi Buru Batzar (EBB), has acknowledged the country‘s favourable progress at an event held in Bilbao‘s Plaza Nueva to celebrate the Aberri Eguna [Basque National Day], but has warned against the emergence of “outdated Spanish nationalism”

Ortuzar at the Aberri Eguna: “Our challenge today is to protect the Basque Country‘s autonomy from potential threats in order to build on what we have already achieved”

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05/01/2018

Lejarraga and Gago are crowned in Europe

Five minutes. That’s all Kerman Lejarraga needed to be crowned welterweight champion of Europe. As his gestures showed while he was being paraded around on his fans’ shoulders as the new number 1 in Europe, his revolver spat fire and downed Bradley Skeete, who even before the end of the second round had fallen to his knees three times and had to leave Bilbao with a damaged right cheek, aching ribs and a dent to his pride.

05/01/2018

The UN recognises the Valle Salado as a World Agricultural Heritage Site

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has designated the Agricultural System of Valle Salado de Añana a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System in Europe.

05/01/2018

The Basque Government sponsors a university chair in Quebec with the Lehendakari Agirre Center

The Basque Minister for Culture, Bingen Zupiria, and the former Lehendakari Juan José Ibarretxe, as director of the Agirre Lehendakaria Center (ALC) for Social and Political Sciences, have subscribed an agreement with McGill University of Montreal in Quebec to create a chair in Basque Studies. The agreement has been reached during a trip to Canada by the Basque Government‘s Minister for Culture, the former Basque First Minister, and the director of the Etxepare Institute, Ana Larraza.