From Baiona to Bilbao, photo match
We have reached 22 and the Basque Country remains a divided photo. "It's got where to go, but it hasn't reached what." A significant phrase in the introduction of an old song. “From Baiona to Bilbao my village is an empty sea.”
Bayona and Bilbao, two fundamental references of the country Vasco.En the confluence of the rivers Errobi and Aturri, Bayona is the main city of the North, head of the Basque School of Urban Hulls, which joins Anglet and Biarritz and is creating the macro-city BAM. The Gran Bilbao that links the waters of the Ibaizabal and Nervión rivers is the main conurbation in the South.
What is the current distance between Bayona and Bilbao? In a straight line, just 120 kilometres, San Sebastian is also in the middle of the road. From a national point of view, the need to strengthen relations between Basque cities should be seen as a prime objective. We therefore have where to go. But what has been achieved for that?
Dr Manex Pagola, Deputy Director of the Basque Museum in Bayona, wrote a report on the relations between Baiona and Bilbao for a symposium held at the UPV/EHU.La ancient historical closeness between the two Basque cities, which he saw very weakened by the border created by the Spanish and French State, had hopes in the direction of the European Union. That has not happened. At the moment, it seems that both States are profoundly distancing themselves from the North and South Basque Country.
France, on its own, has decided to coerce the border by creating deadly obstacles in the centre of Euskal Herria to stop immigrants. Seven people have died last year from the cause of it in the Bidasoa River, in Irún or on the railway line next to Donibane.
There was a time when projects were developed to connect cross-border Basque cities. Taking the San Sebastian and Baiona axis, in 1993 Henry Grenet, president of the BAM or conurbation of Baiona-Anglet-Biarritz, and then Eli Galdos, Deputy General of Gipuzkoa, signed an agreement on the cross-border enlargement of the Basque Eurocity on the basis of the new European Union legislation. This project was joined by 25 municipalities in Lapurdi and 17 municipalities in Gipuzkoa, but it was left out there.
Until the end of last year 2021, on 20 November, two mass demonstrations were held in Bilbao and Baiona. Thousands of people under the slogan In Bilbao until a free and egalitarian Basque Country. Thousands of Altarroces living in the Basque Country and living in Baiona.
Subsequently, on 13 December the Pirenaica Labour Association (CTP), established in 1983 with the impetus of the Council of Europe to promote cross-border cooperation, met. On this occasion the meeting took place in Catalonia, in the Cerdanese town of Alp. When the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragones, and the president of the CAV, Iñigo Urkullu, appeared together, they made no reference to the imposed division suffered by the nations of Euskal Herria and Catalonia. Relations with the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, were the sole responsibility of both.
They say that it is the custom of African immigrants, that when the person leaves their country of origin, leave the photo in half and half to the family, take it with them. When they reach the limit, they send home that second half to make a photo. We have the broken picture in three parts, and we don't know when we'll be able to gather the unified picture of Euskal Herria. We need new ways to form the Basque Country.
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