:06:02
We had a wonderful relationship.
But it was cut short.
:06:22
President of the Basque Government
1985-1998
:06:26
with the Basque
Nationalist Party (PNV)
:06:29
Graduate in Basque Philology,
poet and writer in Basque
:06:33
President of Euskaltzaindia
(Academy of the Basque Language)
:06:38
Cultural Councilor in San Sebastian
for the Basque Socialist Party.
:06:42
Threatened by ETA.
:06:43
Gen. Secretary of Batasuna (banned
left wing independent movement
:06:47
which does not condemn
attacks by ETA)
:06:49
Former mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz
with the Basque Nationalist Party
:06:55
There are Basques who feel Basque
:06:57
and think that whatever is Basque
:07:00
takes in everything that is
a basic element of identity.
:07:05
The Basque Country is
their homeland and their nation.
:07:08
My little place in the world,
:07:11
that's what Euskal Herria
is for me.
:07:13
It's the name the world takes on
in this place,
:07:17
the place where I live.
:07:20
I live in the French State,
:07:23
that's my citizenship.
:07:26
But my nationality is Basque.
:07:28
50% of Basques
feel that they are Basque,
:07:32
but their national
patriotic identity is Spain.
:07:37
That's where a large part
of the conflict lies,
:07:40
in how each person defines
the Basque identity.
:07:43
In this country,
:07:44
we tend to make
collective formulations
:07:48
in which the individual
disappears.
:07:51
They want this group identity
to be uniform.
:07:55
ACuban friend of mine says that
we are the last natives in Europe.
:07:59
Some think that feeling Basque
is their fundamental identity