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Will it be different this time?

More than three years after it resumed violent actions, ETA has announced a decision “not to carry out armed actions” in a video obtained by the BBC. In it, ETA confirms its “commitment to finding a democratic solution to the conflict”.

ETA has previously announced and then abandoned two ceasefires, the first lasting 14 months and [...]

Iniciativa Internacionalista made it to the EU elections

Iniciativa Internacionalista leaflet

The Basque “abertzales” left-wing pro-independence parties have been repeatedly banned from taking part in local and national elections, on the grounds that all these parties had links with terrorist group ETA. But Europe is not Spain, specially when it comes to illegalizing political parties without blinking an eye, and this [...]

So far, no way out

The murders of two British soldiers and a police officer within less than 48 hours have raised fear in Northern Ireland that the peace process might be at stake. However, the killings have had a unite response from all political parties, including Sinn Fein, historically IRA’s political arm.

Sinn Fein’s attitude [...]