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UEMA approves the projects for a new year filled with challenges at the general meeting held in Legorreta

  • UEMA has held its Regular General Assembly at the end of the year in Legorreta today. The mayors and councillors of the 86 Basque municipalities that make up the UEMA have met at the local Herri Antzokia and, among other things, have analysed the 2018 balance sheet and approved the main projects for 2019. In general, the development of Basque municipalities, the transversality of linguistic policies, joint work, legal support and the awareness of Basque citizenship are some of the lines of 2019.

17 December 2018 - 09:58
UEMA osatzen duten 86 udaletako hainbat alkate eta zinegotzi Legorretako plazan, batzar nagusia amaitu ondoren. Argazkia: UEMA
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In the annual balance that is about to end, three works have been highlighted: a report that includes the steps to be taken from the prevention of the Basque municipalities to development, an analysis of the Basque city and tourism, and the trajectory and dissemination of the linguistic impact in the last year.

Among the projects for 2019, the most relevant lines of work for the coming months have been analysed and approved in five UEMA standard lines of action.

·Complete the territory of the Basque municipalities: In addition to working with the peoples who can enter UEMA, to publicize the details of UEMA and the work of UEMA with the new plenary sessions and new municipal representatives after the May elections.

·Consolidation of UEMA as an organization: in 2019 there will be several lines of work. Communication campaign in which various public institutions will work together to make known the importance of the municipalities of Euskaldunes, collaboration with the other institutions, relations and agreements with the new municipalities and councils that will be created.

·Euskaldunization of municipalities and municipalities: continue working with the means and plans for the integral Euskaldunization of municipalities, complete municipal diagnoses, campaigns and training sessions for the Euskaldunization of the services sector, especially with newcomers, etc.

·Citizen awareness and empowerment: continue with sectoral workshops and training sessions and consolidate the UEMA educational project both in regulated education (in schools) and in the non-regulated field (youth meetings).

·Care and development of the municipalities of Euskaldunes: developing the means of care and protection (Linguistic Impact Assessment: dissemination) and taking steps for their development in a transversal way.

86 municipalities and 250,000 inhabitants of Euskaldun land

Currently, the Commonwealth of Basque Municipalities consists of 86 municipalities, including 250,000 inhabitants. UEMA emerged from the popular movement for the Basque Country. In 1988 32 municipalities of Álava, Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa and Navarre approved a motion by the Basque Basque Country association for municipalities to become Euskaldunicen and start operating in full in Basque. Aware of the difficulties and problems common to this end, some of these municipalities began to meet and coordinate with each other so that the municipalities could also start working in Basque. Thus, the UEMA became a public institution, thus acquiring the character of community. In 1991, 17 municipalities participated in the founding assembly, and since then the territory of the Basque municipalities has been growing in number of municipalities. At the beginning of this legislature, for example, 72 municipalities were part of UEMA. It's now 86.

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