Basque

ETA

Mass protest in Spain ETA group crackdown

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets Saturday in northern Spain to protest a crackdown on an association that aids jailed members of armed Basque separatist group ETA.

Economist

The Economist: 'ETA is still a danger in Spain'

An editorial in international publication The Economist has noted that the Basque Homeland and Liberty (ETA) terrorist group is still around and still armed.

Lonely Planet

Top ten ways to spend a weekend in Bilbao

In the Local's new series highlighting tourist destinations across Spain, we head to Bilbao and discover there's much more to this city than a certain Guggenheim museum.

Language and culture

TV show slams 'Nazi' Catalan language policies

The regional broadcaster Telemadrid has launched an attack on Spain's Catalan and Basque nationalists with a programme which claims both groups are using Nazi-style propaganda to brainwash people.

ETA

Police nab Basque boss over airport ETA honour

A court in Spain charged a Basque nationalist on Tuesday with incitement to terrorism for helping to stage an homage to the suspected former leader of the armed Basque separatist group ETA who died last month at a Paris hospital.

France

Basque terror boss cops eight years more

A Basque separatist nicknamed Cherokee who was once the most wanted ETA military leader now faces more than 400 years in prison after a French court on Tuesday slapped him with a latest sentence of eight years.

Terrorism

French court sentences ex-ETA boss to 20 years

A Paris court on Wednesday sentenced the former military chief of the Basque separatist group ETA to 20 years in prison on charges including the 2007 kidnapping in France of a Spanish couple and their son.