The purpose of the study presented in this paper was to explore how social identity influences the construction of leadership development programmes in the Basque Region. The Basque region is recognised as having a strong social and national identity. Historically leadership development has been focused on practising leaders and managers...
MADRID AFP — Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Bilbao, the financial capital of Spain's northern Basque Country, on Friday to demand independence for the wealthy region. Police offered no estimate for the number of participants but the Basque news agency Vasco Press said just over...
Petersham's food sourcer on the best places for a range of pepper produce Little Green Men sells Padr*peppers, grown in north-west England, fresh and as plants. It also sells a bountiful range of peppers and chillis as plants grown to order. www.littlegreenmen.co.uk Dry River...
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain AFP — Spaniard Alejandro Valverde, riding for Caisse d'Epargne, won the San Sebastian classic race in Spain's northern Basque region here on Saturday in a pre-Olympic tune-up. Valverde, 28, is one of the favourites for the men's road race honours at the Beijing Games which...
MADRID AFP — A small bomb placed by the separatist group ETA went off overnight at a highway building site in Spain's northern Basque region, a Basque interior ministry spokeswoman said Monday. The explosion on the A-8 highway near the town of Orio caused no injuries but damaged...
MADRID AFP — The increasing use of regional languages such as Catalan and Basque in parts of Spain instead of Spanish is making life difficult for tourists, the head of a Spanish tourism lobby group said Tuesday. Juan Andres Melian, the director of the Tourism Panel...
In the Spain team that was crowned European champions on Sunday night, only two men came from Real Madrid - the team favoured by the Franco regime and for years almost the sole provider of representatives for the national side. Barcelona - that emblem of Catalan...
No longer does it reside in Europe's second division. Sunday night's triumph in Vienna was a moment of pride, unity and joy for this nation - and a mark of how far it's come. Elizabeth Nash reports from Madrid Spain is enjoying a...
Will Kosovo’s independence prove contagious, inspiring breakaway regions across the world to declare statehood? Many EU countries refuse to recognize Europe’s newest nation-state for fear of stirring up separatism in their own backyards—the Spanish fret about Basque country, the Georgians worry over Abkhazia, and the Moldovans get anxious...
MADRID AFP — Spain was swept up in football fever Saturday one day ahead of its national team's Euro 2008 final against Germany in Vienna which fans were confident would lead to its first major title in over 40 years. From Valencia to Valladolid, town halls...
VITORIA, Spain AFP — The Basque parliament on Friday approved a plan for a regional referendum on self-determination, setting the stage for a confrontation with the government in Madrid which has condemned the poll as illegal. The parliament voted by a narrow majority of 34 votes...
The Pays Basque was the only part of France that our man in Paris John Lichfield hadn't visited. To rectify matters, he rounded up two friends and set out to discover how an Englishman, a Frenchman and an American could get the most out of some...
VALENCIA, Spain AFP — Spain's conservative opposition Popular Party sought to heal its internal divisions at a national convention that opened Friday, three months after it suffered its second successive election defeat. "We have not come here to fight one another," the mayor of the Mediterranean...
MADRID AFP — Two lorry drivers were killed on picket lines in Spain and Portugal on Tuesday as strikes by thousands of truckers over soaring fuel prices turned deadly. Spanish police escorted petrol supply tankers into Barcelona on the second day of the stoppage that has...
MADRID AFP — Spanish fishermen and truck drivers stepped up their national strike against rising fuel prices Sunday, staging direct action to disrupt public events. In the morning, truck drivers in the northeast region of Catalonia launched a go-slow operation on a highway. That...
MADRID AFP — Spain's second-largest bank BBVA said Tuesday it had agreed to pay 800 million euros (1.2 billion dollars) to double its holdings in Chinese bank CITIC. BBVA said it had agreed to increase its stake in China CITIC Bank to 10.07 percent from 5.0...
European News IN BRIEF *MADRID Three people were injured yesterday when a bomb claimed by the separatist group Eta exploded in the Basque town of Zarautz. The bomb was aimed at a construction company, Amenabar, part of a consortium building a train network linking Bilbao, San Sebastian...
European News IN BRIEF *MADRID Three people were injured yesterday when a bomb claimed by the separatist group Eta exploded in the Basque town of Zarautz. The bomb was aimed at a construction company, Amenabar, part of a consortium building a train network linking Bilbao, San Sebastian...
European News IN BRIEF *MADRID The Spanish government has ruled out a referendum planned in the Basque country that would lead to talks on the region's ties with Spain. The Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, told the head of the Basque regional government, Juan Jose Ibarretxe,...
GETXO, Spain AFP — ETA set off another powerful car bomb on Monday, on the eve of a visit to Madrid by the head of the Basque regional government aimed at developing new political relations with the rest of Spain. The separatist group set off a van packed...
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