Mention the Basque Country, and most foreigners think of separatist violence. Until last year, attacks, murders and bombings by nationalist guerrillas consigned Euskadi, as locals call the region, to the same category as Northern Ireland and Corsica: the three remaining violent conflicts staining an otherwise peaceful half-century in western Europe. But influenced by the peace strategy of Northern Ireland’s IRA, the militant nationalist group Eta abandoned violence and sought negotiations with the government in Madrid.
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