The hope is “to learn what happened so that it will never happen again” Cristina Uriarte, Councillor for Education for the Basque Country, said the aim of the pilot was to offer resources to students ...

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 ...

Spain's dash into tourism in the 1970s and its property boom last decade largely passed by the Basque region, a cool, damp corner of the north with a reputation for separatist violence. Instead the ...

It’s still a nest of terrorists around here, but nobody worries about it much. These days when you hear a helicopter at night, it’s only the medevac chopper bringing some urgent case down to the main ...

The Basque region, by contrast, can borrow two-year debt at 8.5 percent interest, compared with 18 percent for Valencia or nearly 14 percent for Catalonia. But the Basque economy is not immune to ...

A Basque nursing home sits amid lovely pine and fir trees in Gernika, Spain. The nearly 100 residents are on average older than 80 years with a few more than a century. When Covid-19 crept as shadow ...