Stateless countries in Europe
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Basque Country
Brittany
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Kurdistan
Quebec
JEAN-PIERRE CHARBONNEAU, HISTORICAL QUEBEC INDEPENDENTIST: “Not holding a third referendum would mean the end of the independence movement”
For a time, Quebec attracted the attention of the Basque pro-independence movement, just as Scotland and Catalonia did years later. In this French-speaking nation, which is part of Canada, two…
EMERGING PRO-INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS IN EUROPE
As our readers know, at NAZIOGINTZA we closely follow current events in other minoritised nations in Europe. Thanks to our network of contacts, we gather political and cultural news from…
THE LONG STRUGGLE FOR THE REUNIFICATION OF BRITTANY
Like the Basque Country, Brittany is a divided nation. This Celtic nation has five departments (French regional municipalities): four of them are located in “official” Brittany, in the administrative region…
ROBIN FARRAR, THE WELSH BASQUE-SPEAKER: “The State maintained the ban on the Welsh language as long as it was the hegemonic language”.
Welshman Robin Farrar (Bangor, Wales, 1985) lives among us, in the village of Bidarrai, in Lower Navarre. He came to the Basque Country in 2023, to improve his knowledge of…
CATALONIA: WORRYING DATA FROM THE LATEST SOCIOLINGUISTIC SURVEY
DAVID VALLS Linguist and Catalan teacher. Abstract: In this article, Catalan linguist David Valls analyses the data from the latest Catalan sociolinguistic survey, published at the beginning of 2025. These…
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE KURDS UNDER SYRIAN DOMINATION?
Kurdistan is the largest stateless nation in the world, a nation divided between four states: Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The Kurds have some accepted autonomy in Iraq, but not…
THE CORSICAN STATUTE OF AUTONOMY, WAITING
Most of the Corsican nationalist parties have long been seeking an autonomy statute for the island. Except for the most radical independentists, who are not satisfied with a statute, the…
THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE OF 1923
In our group Naziogintza we have lamented more than once that we Basques know very little about our history, including our recent history. Therefore, some historical episodes of great importance…
NATIONALIST TRADE UNIONS IN THE STATELESS NATIONS OF EUROPE
Various agencies play an important role in a process of national liberation: political parties, popular movements, cultural agents and, of course, trade unions. It is difficult to imagine a process…
JORDI MARTI MONLLAU, CATALAN PHILOSOPHER AND LINGUIST: “Independence needs to be an instrument for the nation’s survival”
Jordi Martí Monllau (Tortosa, 1967) is no doubt one of the thinkers who has come up with the clearest thought on the Catalan nation and its language. Philosopher and linguist,…
