GenevaLunch » ETA http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Spain: Green light to Basque independists http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/26/spain-green-light-to-basque-independists/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/26/spain-green-light-to-basque-independists/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:19:08 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=62882 GenevaLunch.com SPAIN – Spain’s justice minister, José Blanco, says the Basque pro-independence coalition, Amaiur, can participate in next month’s general elections as it has found no evidence of affiliation with terrorist separatist group ETA. After 43 years, ETA announced last week it was giving up violence as a tool for achieving Basque independence. Links to: Taiwan [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/26/spain-green-light-to-basque-independists/feed/ 0 Spain’s ETA announces ceasefire http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/11/spains-eta-announces-ceasefire/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/11/spains-eta-announces-ceasefire/#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:57:05 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=52114 GenevaLunch.com The Basque separatist group ETA has announced (Spa) a “permanent, general and verifiable” ceasefire in its long-standing struggle to create an independent Basque nation. The Spanish government dismissed the move 10 January and said ETA would have to lay down its arms and disband first. Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero rejected any dialogue with [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/11/spains-eta-announces-ceasefire/feed/ 0 ETA declares ceasefire, third in 12 years http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/06/eta-declares-ceasefire-third-in-12-years/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/06/eta-declares-ceasefire-third-in-12-years/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:14:14 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=46633 GenevaLunch.com The Basque separatist group ETA has announced “that it took the decision several months ago not to carry out armed actions.” The announcement came in a video recording handed over to a BBC journalist in Paris. The Basque separatist struggle has cost the lives of more than 800 people since 1968. In December 2006 the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/09/06/eta-declares-ceasefire-third-in-12-years/feed/ 0 Police arrest Basque separatist leaders in Northern Spain http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/14/police-arrest-basque-separatist-leaders-in-northern-spain/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/14/police-arrest-basque-separatist-leaders-in-northern-spain/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:22:52 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=29808 GenevaLunch.com A total of 10 people, nine of them connected with the banned political party Batasuna, have been arrested in the Basque country cities of San Sebastian, Pamplona and Hernani. They are accused of trying to reorganize the political wing of ETA, the armed separatist group, under a new name, after Batasuna was banned in 2003. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/14/police-arrest-basque-separatist-leaders-in-northern-spain/feed/ 0 Competition commission opens new investigation against Swatch’s ETA http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/15/competition-commission-opens-new-investigation-against-swatchs-eta/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/15/competition-commission-opens-new-investigation-against-swatchs-eta/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:38:38 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=27776 GenevaLunch.com Biel/Bienne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swatch Group, which owns the parts-making company ETA Manufacture Horlogère SA, has responded publicly with dismay to news of a new Comco investigation into the impact of its dominant position in the market. Comco, the Swiss federal competition commission, says it has received numerous complaints since ETA announced in the autumn [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/15/competition-commission-opens-new-investigation-against-swatchs-eta/feed/ 1 Three bombs go off in Palma de Mallorca http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/10/three-bombs-go-off-in-palma-de-mallorca/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/10/three-bombs-go-off-in-palma-de-mallorca/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:40:17 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=24530 GenevaLunch.com Three small bombs exploded in tourist areas of Palma, the capital of Spanish island Mallorca the afternoon of 9 August. No one was hurt, and one of the explosions may have been a controlled explosion detonated by police, according to Spanish media. Hours earlier, ETA, the Basque separatist group, claimed responsibility for an earlier bomb [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/10/three-bombs-go-off-in-palma-de-mallorca/feed/ 0 Two dead in Mallorca car bomb, Spain on top alert http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/31/two-dead-in-mallorca-car-bomb-spain-on-top-alert/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/31/two-dead-in-mallorca-car-bomb-spain-on-top-alert/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:11:59 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=23758 GenevaLunch.com A booby-trapped car exploded 30 July in front of the paramilitary Guardia Civil headquarters in Palmanova outside of Palma, on the Balearic island of Mallorca off the coast of Spain, killing its two Guardia Civil occupants. The bomb was either placed in a bag under the patrol car or attached to its underside, say police, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/31/two-dead-in-mallorca-car-bomb-spain-on-top-alert/feed/ 0 Van bomb explodes in Spanish town, 37 injured http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/29/van-bomb-explodes-in-spanish-town-37-injured/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/29/van-bomb-explodes-in-spanish-town-37-injured/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:30:39 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=23461 GenevaLunch.com A van parked in front of the paramilitary Civil Guard headquarters in the town of Burgos, northern Spain exploded early morning 29 July, slightly injuring 37 people and damaging surrounding buildings. No one immediately claimed responsibility, though media quoted the police as blaming separist Basque group ETA. Reports say the van was stolen in France. [...]

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