Early Basque whalers called them whale killers when they saw them attacking other whales.
It was risky to devolve more powers to the Catalans, and even more so to talk to the Basque separatists, ETA.
Spanish conservatives might do well to reconsider their refusal to consider symbolic changes in national status for Catalonia and the Basque country.
Their passing lacks the zip and variation the Basque provided.
The violent Basque separatist group ETA, which wants to disrupt tourism in Spain, took responsibility.
He would have little trouble finding parliamentary support from business-friendly nationalist parties in Catalonia and the Basque country.
Three people wearing floppy Basque berets and white silk masks with small eyeholes sat at a table in front of flags symbolising the independent country they want to create.
Eli's raisin crisps, perfect for holding the Basque cheese, have risen from $6.86 to $8.35.
And for the government to survive, he must satisfy the Catalan and Basque nationalists who prop up his minority administration.
Last March control of the regional government passed from the Basque Nationalist Party, often seen as soft on ETA, to the Socialists for the first time in almost 30 years.
And Clemente, blamed for all, joined his Basque countryman Zubizarreta on the breadline as sacrificial lamb.
Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the half-open door, made sure that he was praying.
There are at least 12 naturist beaches in the Basque region, and many more all over the Spanish coast.
The absence of a pro-ETA party, which would probably garner 10% of the Basque vote, allowed non-nationalists to take control of the Basque government in 2009.
In a recent interview, an erstwhile hard-line leader, Rufi Etxeberria, bluntly told ETA it had to either embrace exclusively peaceful means or lose all relevance to Basque politics.
After the briefing, Huang also accepted exclusive interviews with CCTV and the Basque Television of Spain.
The Socialists are left in control of just Extremadura and two regions that did not vote—Andalusia and the Basque country.
"Basque has a free order of words, but something we linguists call neutral or canonical order exists, i.e. that which requires less effort from the brain", she explained.
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