Originally Posted by
culloty82
About 35 years (Franco) too late, and though welcome, it's highly unlikely that anything significant will happen in the Basque Country resulting from this. This is at least the third "permanent" ceasefire over the years, with bombings putting paid to the last attempt of negotiations. It's unlikely Madrid will respond unless decommissioning occurs, and even then, the Basque people themselves seem to have turned against independence for now, electing a Socialist (unionist) Prime Minister last year.
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