What do y'all know about the Basque Country?

There's more to an independence movement than the violent parts. Of course ETA and ENAM didn't gather public support. They're illegal. If everyone started publically supporting them there would be a lot of arrests to be made 😂

@EuskalEsnea: Never said otherwise. But ENAM was made illegal after it came into existence, because of it's support for ETA's violence. If ENAM had chosen a different path, they might have accomplished something. There was a point when ENAM could've been a legitimate political movement. If they had more popular support, they probably would've chosen that path. But they didn't, they failed, and now they've been relegated to history's trash can.

There are plenty of political independence movements. We don't need more to divide us. We need more unity. Basque history has been plagued with division of opinions and fighting amongst ourselves. I must say I never thought I'd find someone who actually knew stuff about Euskadi here 😂 Good to meet you.

@EuskalEsnea: there was an interesting extract from a book called Cod in the Sunday papers a few years ago. I kept meaning to get the book but never got round to it. We did quite a bit about the Basque country at school, in French though not geography lol.

Edit. I just realised Cod was published 20 years ago! Lol!

@Onecharmingman: The author of that book called Cod also has an apparently good book about Basque history

@EuskalEsnea: I'll have to look out for it.

It doesn't border the Mediterranean.

@EuskalEsnea: Sorry failed to engage brain - it's Catalonia that borders the Med

Ok then lol

Sure