On the basis of previous experience, this is likely to be especially true of Catalonia and the
Basque Provinces, which are the wealthiest regions in Spain.
Three
Basque provinces lie in France, while there's four in Spain, hence the old graffiti that states "4+3=1".
Hain's reasoning being that Spain, because of Catalonia and the
Basque Provinces, would vote against any country that had seceded.
Three concern second referrals: two against Spain, on the one hand, for aid to Magefesa group (the Commission seeks a penalty payment of 131,136 and a lump sum of 14,343 per day from the date of the first ruling to the date of the second) and on the other, for aid to certain
Basque provinces (penalty payment of 236,044.
6 October 2010 - Moody's put the Aaa ratings on Spain's Basque Country and the
Basque provinces of Guipuzcoa and Biscay on downgrade review citing expectations for slow economic growth in the country over the medium term.
The terrorist struggle for Basque independence has so few supporters because the
Basque provinces of Spain already have almost complete control over their own affairs.
aa Noting that Morocco's autonomy proposal "would provide effective self-determination for the Sahrawis, allowing for local decision-making and control over economic, social, linguistic and cultural issues, Veerland cited as examples several successful autonomy regions, including the Trentino-Alto Adige region in Italy, the autonomous region of Madeira in Portugal and the Catalonia and the
Basque Provinces in Spain.
Esdaile reevaluates the role of the guerillas against a background of desperate poverty and undermines the idea of a popular crusade except, perhaps, in Navarre and the
Basque provinces.
61) In a report entitled "Street Violence 1999" the Spanish Interior Ministry documented a total of 390 acts of "street violence" particularly in the
Basque provinces of Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa during the ceasefire.
Owing to their special, local circumstances, the exceptions to these rather unheroic rules were the
Basque provinces and Navarre.
Spain's Galacia, Valencia, Catalonia and
Basque provinces also have forms of self-rule as do the Danish administrations of Greenland and Faroe Island.
This is a study of roughly 350 cases involving sexual misconduct from the province of Vizcaya, one of the
Basque provinces of northern Spain.
