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Basque elections: PNV survives rise of EH Bildu, and retains absolute majority with PSE-EE

News Desk22nd April 202427th April 2024

22nd April 202427th April 20244317

The separatist left-wing coalition EH Bildu celebrated a historic result in the Basque Country’s regional elections on Sunday, but it won’t be enough for them...

Spain & EU pay tribute to victims of terror on 20th anniversary of Madrid train bombings

News Desk11th March 202418th March 2024

11th March 202418th March 20242114

Spain and officials from the European Union paid tribute on Monday to the 192 victims of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings that marked...

Political storm as 44 convicted ETA members to run in Basque elections

News Desk11th May 202319th May 2023

11th May 202319th May 20235254

A political storm has broken out after EH Bildu, a Basque nationalist party, presented its candidate lists for the forthcoming local and regional elections that...

Spanish judge summons three former ETA chiefs for 1997 murder of local politician

News Desk8th July 202212th July 2022

8th July 202212th July 20223400

Spain’s National High Court judge, Manuel García Castellón, has agreed to summon three former ETA chiefs, who were members of the executive committee of the...

Basque Country Main News

France allows suspected ETA leader to face trial in Spain for 2002 Bilbao attack

News Desk13th January 202217th January 2022

13th January 202217th January 20222697

The French justice ruled on Wednesday that a suspected former leader of the ETA Basque separatist group known as ‘Txeroki’ can be temporarily transferred to...

Backlash over minister’s comments comparing violence in Catalonia with Basque Country

Newsdesk / ACN28th October 201931st October 2019

28th October 201931st October 20193039

Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Spain’s acting interior minister, has clarified statements on Monday that he made in an interview with a newspaper that suggested he had compared the...

Ex-leader of ETA arrested in France

News Desk17th May 201921st May 2019

17th May 201921st May 20192295

The former leader of the Basque terrorist group ETA was arrested in France on Thursday, after more than 16 years on the run. José Antonio...

Rubalcaba, former Spanish deputy PM, dies

News Desk10th May 201914th May 2019

10th May 201914th May 20192282

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, the former Spanish deputy prime minster, interior minister and key figure of the Socialist (PSOE) party, died on Friday in Madrid after suffering...

Catalan Trial: Day 20 summary

SiE Newsdesk / ACN / Catalan News21st March 201925th March 2019

21st March 201925th March 20192858

Day 20 of the trial of Catalan pro-independence leaders accused of organising the 2017 referendum began with 10 more Guardia Civil police officers summoned as...

Thousands demand transfers for ETA prisoners

AFP13th January 201916th January 2019

13th January 201916th January 20192188

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in the Basque Country on Saturday demanding that prisoners linked to the former armed separatist group ETA be transferred to...

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