A window of opportunity?The Basque Nationalist Party and European Christian Democracy in Exile
- Wolfram Kaiser
- Piotr H. Kosicki
Editorial: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 978-94-6166-422-8
Año de publicación: 2021
Páginas: 117-136
Tipo: Capítulo de Libro
Resumen
Basque nationalist, Catholic and democratic.¹ These three concepts, and in this order, defined the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) when it went into exile in 1937 as a result of the Spanish Civil War. This exile would last for nearly forty years, the duration of Franco’s dictatorship. The PNV had been created in the late nineteenth century as a reaction to the supposed loss of Basque identity caused by what was perceived as a Spanish “invasion”. Its objective was to safeguard what it regarded as the essence of the Basque people, in which Catholicism played a key role. For the party’s...