I spent a number of days in the Basque Country last weekend. I was there to speak at a conference organised by Gure Esku, a Basque organisation similar to Ireland’s Future, of which I am a member.

The series began this weekend… New year, new adventure – and this one comes with music, language and a whole lot of heart. Folk singer ...

The discovery of five words inscribed on a 2,000-year-old bronze hand may help rewrite the history of the Basque language, one of Europe's most mysterious tongues. Investigators in northern Spain said ...

A Spanish football referee warned players they would be sent off if they spoke Basque during a fifth-tier football match, according to reports in Spain. The match – between Elgoibar and Idiazabal – ...

Though the Basque and Armenian languages share no superficial resemblances, they do share a baffling litany of words and grammatical elements. A few steps from the entrance to the Cathedral of the ...

San Sebastián is where Basque cinema’s strategy plays out at scale. This year’s bumper lineup – 13 Basque world premieres and 38 total projects across features, shorts, docs and retrospectives – ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How are declining regions to be revitalised? This question arises wherever erstwhile bastions of heavy industry ...

22:25, Mon, Jun 11, 2018 Updated: 22:35, Mon, Jun 11, 2018 The activists, from the Basque Country in northern Spain, joined hands to form a human chain to call for the right to hold a regional ...

Though they may seem like unlikely companions, both Iceland and the Basque Country undertook unique democratic regenerations following the 2008 global economic crisis. Contemplating about Iceland from ...

First Minister Mark Drakeford is visiting the Basque Country this week to meet with the President, government ministers and the President of the Basque Parliament. In a statement, a spokesperson said ...

Things aren't working out the way many of us hoped. But we could learn something from this small entrepreneurial nation. The 21st Century is not working out the way many of us hoped: we witness the ...