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EBB
12/14/2018
The Basque nationalist leader, the burukide Mikel Burzako, visits Telavi to attend Salomé Zurabishvili‘s inauguration ceremony as Georgia‘ first female president
Through the Georgian Dream Party, which has elected Salomé Zurabishvili to the presidency, Georgia is going to look favourably toward NATO and the European Union. Accordingly, the European Democratic Party, of whose Political Committee the Basque National Party‘s Central Committee burukide Mikel Burzako is a member, and Georgian Dream could have a major role to play over the coming years as go-to political parties providing a bridge for European matters of significance to the country
EBB
05/08/2018
Ortuzar receives the US ambassador to Spain, Richard Duke Buchan III, at Sabin Etxea
The US diplomat and the chairman of EAJ-PNV‘s central committee, the Euzkadi Buru Batzar (EBB), have discussed the political situation and pledged to reinforce the economic and business ties between the United States and Euskadi-The Basque Country
EBB
05/04/2018
“Basque society is shaking the weights off its wings as it seeks the freedom to fly toward what it aspires to be”
On behalf of the Basque National Party’s delegation, Andoni Ortuzar, the chairman of EAJ-PNV’s central committee, has officially acknowledged ETA’s unilateral, effective and definitive dissolution, as ratified at the international event held in Kanbo
NEWS
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.
NEWS
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.
NEWS
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.
NEWS
05/01/2018
More than 100 airlines gather in Bilbao to decide upon their future European routes
The foremost companies in the European aviation industry have gathered in Bilbao for their Routes Europe 2018 summit on route development for planning and negotiating new air services in the region. The event has been attended by 1,200 delegates that have held 4,800 meetings, with a wide range of representatives from over 100 flagship, regional and low-cost airlines from all corners of the world, together with managers from 300 airports and 50 tourist authorities from the cities where they are headquartered.
Basque Country
04/29/2018
The Lehendakari has taken part in the planting of a sapling of the "Ginkgo Biloba (Maidenhead) tree, bearer of hope"
The Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, has taken part in the planting of a sapling of the "Ginkgo Biloba (Maidenhead) tree, bearer of hope" in Gernika, in a ceremony designed to convey "a strong statement against war and in favour of world peace". The event has been attended by, among other personalities, the Mayor of Gernika, José María Gorroño, and the Mayor of Hiroshima, Kazumi Matsui.
EBB
04/25/2018
Dialogue for Catalonia and a general increase in pensions, the keys to EAJ-PNV’s support for the State Budgets in 2018
The Basque National Party will not support the amendments to the whole and will gain a month’s respite for the normalisation of the political situation in Catalonia after the Spanish government agreed to a substantial increase in pensions
Basque Country
04/11/2018
Euskadi-The Basque Country introduces itself in the United Kingdom as the setting for intensive industry and innovative technology
Euskadi provides know-how and value added in the energy sector on the trade mission’s first day in London
EBB
04/01/2018
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”
EBB
03/11/2018
Ortuzar sums up positively his trip to Mexico: “Political and economic relations are guaranteed for the future”
A meeting with Mexican alderdikides ends the visit to the country by the Chair of Euzkadi Buru Batzar and the Vice-chair of the PDE
