Author: Asier Sánchez Throughout the history of the Iberian Peninsula, various peoples and ethnic groups have been subjected to a long history of exclusion and persecution. Among them are the Agotes, probably one of the least known, but no less interesting for that. Their story, shrouded in intense mysticism, invites…
On 28 September, general elections were held in Moldova, considered decisive for the former Soviet socialist republic. Author: Asier Sánchez Hernández On this occasion, the pro-European sector emerged victorious. Solidarity Action (PAS), the party of the current president, Maia Sandu, managed to maintain an absolute majority with 50.16% of the…
The mountainous territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has been the subject of dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia for decades. To understand the keys to the conflict, we must go back to 1988, when the autonomous region of Karabakh, located in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan but with an Armenian Orthodox Christian…
Linked to the Enlightenment movement, the Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country (Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del Pais), Euskalerriko Adiskideen Elkartea in basque (Euskera), was founded in 1764 and has its origins in gatherings held at the Intsausti Palace in Azkoitia, by the Count of Peñaflorida,…
Last weekend (1st and 2nd of October), a delegation of Bilbao’s city Council – led by its Civil and International Participation Councilor Oihane Agirregoitia – visited the Georgian town of Tbilisi; both have been partner cities since 1989. In the visit both parties exchanged experiences in the area of human…
The town in Wales commemorates the 85th anniversary of that act of solidarity with different events. The Spanish Civil War altered the lives of a whole generation of children for life. Many were forced into exile. Almost 4,000 Basque children became refugees in Great Britain. This Friday and Saturday, the…
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from EH Bildu, PNV, ERC, Junts per Catalunya, Sinn Féin and Régions et Peuples Solidaires have presented a group in favour of the reight of self-determination, which in the next Conference over the Future of Europe a new ‘European clarity act’ aiming to “settle…
“We have to move towards a social Europe, which has to be the Europe of the peoples”, said the leader of the Front, who recalled that the right to self-determination is considered “a fundamental right”.
Under the framework of “Sovereignty Conflicts in Europe: Bases for a Solution” international conferences, organized by Eusko Ikaskuntza (Basque Studies Society) and the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Catalan Studies Institute), Bases for the elaboration of a code of good practice aiming to strenghten the European project and the links between the…
The AI system developed by MIT researchers is capable of automatically deciphering dead languages without the need for advanced knowledge of their relationship to other languages….