A window of opportunity?The Basque Nationalist Party and European Christian Democracy in Exile

  1. Leyre Arrieta
Llibre:
Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century: Catholic Christian Democrats in Europe and the Americas
  1. Wolfram Kaiser
  2. Piotr H. Kosicki

Editorial: Leuven University Press

ISBN: 978-94-6166-422-8

Any de publicació: 2021

Pàgines: 117-136

Tipus: Capítol de llibre

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Resum

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...

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