A New Political Status for the Basque Country?
Publisher: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe Volume: 27 pages, pdf Description: In 2012 the Basque Country (or Euskadi) can be said to have entered a new scenario that is qualitatively different from those it experienced in the preceding decades. In this new context, it remains to be determined what political model will rally the next generation of Basque citizens. This article argues that the constitutional recognition of a new political status for the Basque Country in the upcoming years remains a remote possibility. In fact, such a process would face two significant obstacles. On the one hand, there is the deep political fragmentation and distrust among the main political forces in the Basque Country, whose electoral expression seems to remain significantly stable. On the other hand, there is resistance by Spanish society to recognize or accommodate asymmetry at the constitutional level.