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IssueIssue 73.73. YearYear 20062006 GAURKO GAIAK / CURRENT EVENTS:

The primary sector on the move 3 • Aurkezpena: Gonzalo Sáenz de Samaniego, Basque Government Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 5 • AZTI: marine and food research The primary sector on the move 8 • Neiker, technology applied to the field 11 • MENDIKOI, leading trainer of agricultural professionals 14 • «Eusko Label» quality certificate

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EUSKAL GAZTEAK MUNDUAN EGILEA / AUTHOR Eusko Jaurlaritza-Kanpo 20-21 • Karmele Llano and Asier Azpiritxaga-Miren Michelle Barriola Harremanetarako Idazkaritza Nagusia Gobierno Vasco-Secretaría General EUSKADITIK: THE LATEST FROM EUSKADI de Acción Exterior Basque Government-General Secretariat for Foreign Action 22 • Construction of the Basque high-speed network to start at the end of the year C/ Navarra, 2 23 • The Mondragón Cooperatives turn fifty 01007 VITORIA-GASTEIZ Tel.: 945 01 7900 24 • Ahotsak, Basque women’s voices for peace [email protected] 25 • Rural 21st Century Euskadi in images ZUZENDARIA / DIRECTOR 26 • Orhipean Josu Legarreta Bilbao

KOORDINAKETA ETA IDAZKETA Kazeta5 Komunikazioa [email protected] EUSKAL ETXEAK / BASQUE CENTERS ARGAZKIAK / PHOTOGRAPHS Mikel Arrazola - Archivo Gobierno 27 • María Luz Arteche, elected new Chairwoman of FEVA Vasco / Basque Government 28 • Basque Minister Javier Madrazo invites Evo Morales to visit Euskadi Archives. 29 • Josu Legarreta attends different events organized by Basque communities ARGITARATZAILEA / EDITOR in Uruguay and Argentina Eusko Jaurlaritzaren Argitalpen 30 • International Symposium on Diaspora Policies Zerbitzu Nagusia Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco

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Aurkezpena Introduction

Basque Government Minister for GONZALO SÁENZ DE SAMANIEGO Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

uskadi breaks clichés Euskadi. But it’s not the only with discovery, meaning one. Tourism is playing an that if we’re going to talk increasingly important part in Eabout the Basque the countryside as a way of primary sector we have to start diversifying work in the by remembering that this is not a Primary Sector, of maintaining country of industry and services the architectural heritage of alone.Quite the opposite,in fact, farmhouses converted into we mustn’t forget that only 5% Innovation guesthouses offering guests a of Basque land is occupied by highly personal service while cities, while the rest is dedicated keeping the rural environment to natural endeavors, mainly Alavesa area, and that we have a alive and kicking. agriculture,woodland or grazing. fine variety of products such as Gernika green peppers, Ibarra hot The wealth of our natural The 40,000 concerns existing in the peppers and Tolosa black beans or surroundings is closely linked to Basque primary sector continue to tomatoes, all bearing the Eusko this tourist attraction. Here we revolve around the farmhouse, a Label offering consumers top- have to mention protected areas combination of agricultural and quality products. Basque such as the Urkiola, Aizgorri, livestock resources suited to each producers have been targeting Gorbea, Valderejo or Urdaibai family which has adapted to quality for decades. natural parks, the latter of which is change down through the listed by the UNESCO as a generations. This is a sector We have to remember that, biosphere reserve. However, we consisting of 70,000 workers, 36% despite the high population density must also remember that 54% of of whom are women, and where it of Euskadi, with an average the area is covered by forest land. is normal to work for oneself. similar to Japan or Belgium, most It is precisely this wealth that That’s the situation in nine out of of the inhabitants live in the cities, sustains one of the Primary Sector ten cases. meaning that we still have plenty resources, forestry production, of space for agriculture, thanks to which is responsible for 18% of its In addition to this traditional rural which, for example, we import income and provides direct environment, another reality Euro 703 million in agricultural employment to over a thousand strongly forging a path for itself is goods and foodstuffs, while we workers. agricultural potential related to export up to as much as 1.02 bn. new crops and the state-of-the-art This is one of the factors perfectly I would like to end by recalling that education received by new defining a Basque agricultural and there are people behind every well generations. Few know that in food industry offering extremely made product, people behind every Euskadi over two million kilos of high levels of quality and farmhouse and tended forest, and a peas and green beans go to the competitiveness. man or woman who works and lives frozen market; that the vineyards in the Basque countryside behind are booming with 80 million kilos Tasting the excellence of Basque every piece of landscape setting us of grapes harvested in the Rioja produce is a way of approaching apart from the rest of the world.

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Research and Training

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food promotes several bodies fostering the Basque primary sector based on a powerful combination of research backed by technology and training. The following pages endeavor to give an overall view of the sector starting from its agrifood and marine concerns, in their broadest sense, until their products reach the consumer. Many of these products offer consumers the “Eusko Label” guarantee in addition to the “Denomination of origin” stamp of excellence.

Thus, centers like AZTI-Tecnalia now specialize in marine and food research. This center not only studies the biological details of the different fishing grounds but also questions of food chain safety in order to ensure that products reach consumers in perfect condition.

For its part, NEIKER promotes agricultural, livestock, forest and environmental research from the Basque Agricultural and Forestry warning station (EAAF), offering farmers and forestry owners useful information on the basis of which to improve their production systems.

However, equally important to research is the training of people already working in the sector and of those preparing to join it. That’s what made us realize the need for a project such as MENDIKOI, which has centralized existing initiatives and now has a string of training centers dedicated to modernizing and professionalizing the Basque primary sector.

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AZTI: marine and food research

Aztik 2006an 25 urte beteko ditu. 1981. urtean biologists, engineers, mathematicians, oceanographers, sortu zen, Eusko Jaurlaritzaren arrantza chemists and pharmacists. ingurumen alorreko ikerketen eskumenak transferitu ostean. Hari esker, Euskadiko Their activity essentially focuses on the carrying out Administrazioari gai honen inguruko of research work for different institutions, aholkularitza emango zion erakundea sortu zen. administrations - European, Basque or Spanish - and companies, which either commission research work Donostiako zentro batekin hasi zen; ondoren, or respond to proposals made by AZTI. “Research Pasaiako portura eraman zuten. Beste bat projects and advanced technological services Bizkaian ipini zuten; Sukarrietan, hain zuzen. generating knowledge for its transferal to what we 1998az geroztik, AZTI Argentinan, Txilen eta call more technological or applied developments”, Ekuadorren ere ageri da, batez ere, elikadura explains Mercedes Fdez-Monge, Director of industriarekin lotutako proiektuetan Marketing and Communication.

ver since it joined the technological corporation “In 1981, while the Basque Country had a large encompassing various technology centers in the fleet of tremendous importance in as a whole, Basque Country, AZTI-Tecnalia has there was no scientific institution to study the E concentrated on research into the sector, and possibilities of the resource. However, the transfer of particularly into two main areas: marine research and this competence brought about the construction of a food research. The village of (Pasajes) in complete research and knowledge network. AZTI is home to the oceanographic research and now belongs to the major international fishing part of the fishing research divisions, while food, some forums. A number of European research centers fishing research and the administrative offices are participate in the international management of located in Sukarrieta. Approximately 180 people fishing grounds”. In the case of AZTI, we study over currently work at the two centers, which had a turnover 17 commercial species, collecting and analyzing of 12 million in 2005. Experts at AZTI include biological information for each one, hence

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contributing to the so-called Scientific Management Council decided at the different International Fishing Forums, such as ICES in the case of the Atlantic Ocean. Based on this recommendation, the political elements yearly establish TACs and Fishing Quotas or decide to take special steps such as the closure of a fishing ground.

Sustainable development AZTI can contribute to a fishing ground being a little or a lot better, and also “offer recommendations on the basis of which to guarantee sustainable development of the sea and its resources”. While fishing was allowed with much less control until only a few years ago, things have changed. The studies carried out by AZTI contribute a great deal of knowledge to understanding the workings of each fishing ground, given that anchovies have nothing in common with tuna, being neither fished in the same areas, with the same tackle, nor affected by the same oceanographic conditions. “In crises such as those suffered by hake or anchovy -says Mercedes Fdez-Monge- we have been able to make a contribution with study-based recommendations and decisions. The Agriculture and Fisheries Department policy is to strongly back research and the Basque fishing industry is a good example of sustainability”. Mercedes Fdez-Monge, Director of Marketing and Communication at AZTI

Present and future of the food sector

Given its tremendous and designing labels. Our AZTI we also work on a line experience in fish subjects, studies similarly focus on the known as the “foods of the canned foods have also features required of a product future”.The point is that the featured among activities at for it to be granted the Basque food industry has to adapt to AZTI since the very beginning label of quality. We also study new trends, producing the food in studies gradually extended the reuse of food industry by- demanded by a modern, to include other kinds of food. products, tsuch as wine and constantly changing society. “We place particular emphasis cider sediment, fish skins and EIn this respect, Mercedes on security throughout the bones, the shells of different Fdez-Monge refers to the entire production process and kinds of local shrimps, or the example of a company in Alava use biosensors to detect the skins of tomatoes and other principally dedicated to the quality of a product in only a vegetable canned products with sale of crisps. “It has now very short time, concentrating a view to extracting fibers, brought out a line of low- on tracking with a view to coloring agents or additives. sodium, low-fat crisps and monitoring the entire process And since renovation is the snacks, more healthy than until a product hits the shelf key to market expectations, at normal, which you can eat

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We study the so-called pelagic species -mackerel, people use this data due to the fact that the sea is anchovy, sardine- and demersal deep-water species, now as much a source of leisure as it is a natural such as hake, John Dory or monkfish. We also have a resource”, hence the study carried out on the tuna and codfish section, although only a couple of famous Mundaka wave, which disappeared for a cod-fishing fleets are still active in the area around time to the tremendous distress of its surfers: Norway. This fishing section in turn has lines of “While a number of factors joined forces to affect research related to fleet modernization, improved the wave morphology, at AZTI we were convinced fishing tackle selection and the application of fish that the situation would sort itself out in time due to prospecting technologies. the fact that the changes made to the ecosystem would have to be put right. It was an enormously nervous time, but the wave has finally been The sea, a source of leisure recovered”. Another important element studied at AZTI is coastal and seaboard management, “We head the One milestone for AZTI was the subject of the network studying the quality of the Basque water enormous oil slicks left by the sinking of the running into the sea. Recent years have seen a “Prestige”, when several of its departments worked positive evolution in the quality of coastal water and on cleaning and recovering the affected water. habitat improvement, a highly positive example of Monitoring and studying the currents permitted us to which is the Bilbao estuary. An extremely strict anticipate the arrival of the oil slicks and organize European directive applies throughout Europe and fishing boats to sail out and help clean them. we can be considered to lead the way with respect to its application, to tools for its implementation and “This is a highly complex subject and it is difficult to post-environmental impact studies. We also carry for us to confirm that our action may have solved a out studies to monitor dredging in certain problem”, says Mercedes Fdez-Monge, but “we Autonomous Community ports and harbors”. provide data and knowledge that help to improve the management of decisions taken with respect to the AZTI also has an ocean-meteorological station administration of each resource”. providing real-time sea data with parameters interesting all sea users, including surfers or For further information: recreational fishers. Taking a look at its web page www.azti.es (www.azti.es) shows that “a spectacular number of without feeling guilty. Food is closely related to our lifestyles and the transformations they are experiencing; meaning that habits will change. Pre-packed, pre-cooked food sales are increasing and the new generations do nothing but open bags. Cooking is going to become a spare-time hobby. That’s why AZTI concentrates on research, safety and new technologies giving products a longer shelf-life but containing preservatives causing as little damage to their properties as possible. We also have a pilot plant complete with tasters at which we carry out all sorts of tests”.

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Neiker Ikerketarako eta Garapenerako Euskal Institutua da. 1998. urteaz geroztik funtzionatzen du, nekazaritza, abeltzaintza, basozaintza eta natur ingurunea alorretan ikerketa sustatzeko helburuarekin. 195 pertsonako taldea du lanean. 2005ean 139 ikerketa proiektu burutu zituen Neiker, technology applied to the field

he Basque Institute for Agrarian Research and and, in general, to all entities demanding high-level Development, Neiker, was born as a Public technological backup, such as management centers, Corporation in 1998 to foster research into professional associations, agricultural concerns, agrifood Tagriculture, livestock, forestry and the natural companies and any other public and private entity so environment. Until then, these functions had been carried demanding”. out at Arkaute’s Centro de Investigación y Mejora Agraria (CIMA) in Vitoria, and at the Servicio de Investigación y “In addition to these functions -adds the Director of Mejora Agraria (SIMA) in Derio, Bizkaia, both of which Neiker- we collaborate in the establishment of training depend upon the Basque Government Department of and professional specialization processes permitting the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. assimilation and application of new techniques and technologies in agricultural and agrifood concerns. We Asier Albizu, Head of the Institute for the last eight also control, monitor and assess quality and compliance months, analyzes the work of this public corporation in with technical requirements and standards in the its different areas. “As well as research, Neiker provides production, transformation and marketing processes of technical advice to the Basque Public Administrations agricultural, fish and food products. Lastly, we

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disseminate practical information for agricultural concerns and companies”.

139 projects in 2005 This enormous task is divided into three lines of action implemented via research and development projects (R&D), analytical services and technical services.

In 2005, Neiker implemented a total of 139 research projects. 24 of which were contracts and 7 cooperation projects. As far as the remaining 108 projects are concerned, 67 were co-funded and 41 exclusively financed by the Basque Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

That same year a total of 89,525 samples were processed as follows: 7,021 (8%) in Vegetable Production and Protection; 3,130 (3%) in Agrisystems and Animal Production; and 78,827 (88%) in Animal Health, of which 33,475 (37%) corresponded to mad cow disease (BSE), and 547 (1%) in Biotechnology.

We must also point out that a total of 40 new analytical techniques were introduced in 2005. « In 2005, Neiker implemented a

A warning station for farmers and forestry-owners total of 139 research projects, 24 The Basque Agricultural and Forestry warning of which were contracts and 7 station (EAAF), comments Asier Albizu, offers farmers and forestry-owners useful information for cooperation projects » improving their production systems.

We particularly concentrate on chemically controlled plagues, issuing warnings indicating the moments of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, who provide the greatest risk of disease or plague, when chemical indispensable information for comparing, speeding up treatments are economically justifiable, and and improving the work of the EAAF. alternative methods of control for limiting or reducing the number of applications. The EAAF issues weekly information on the hydric requirements of beetroot and potatoes. These The efficacy of this kind of warning depends on how recommendations are based on climatic and fast it is transmitted, hence the information is posted agronomic data obtained from the Basque in Neiker’s web page (www.neiker.net) and Meteorology Service meteorological stations and communicated by telephone and fax to the from strategically placed agri-meteorological technicians responsible for agricultural cooperatives stations. and associations. The EEAF provides information permitting correct Similarly, the EAAF employs all of the new tools programming of the nutritional needs of agricultural permitting improved warning systems. The most and forestry crops. We supply the necessary recent of these is the introduction of a mobile agri- information for taking soil, foliage and other meteorological station network making it possible to substrate samples and the appropriate considerations establish the moment when the risk of disease is for establishing fertilization needs according to the greatest based on agronomic and climatic data. phenological condition of each crop.

Neiker is helped by technicians from agricultural The EAAF also provides information on any potential cooperatives and from the Basque Department of new risk to Basque crops. The appearance of isolated

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pesticide-resistant vegetable pathogens, the detection “This innovation -according to Asier Albizu- should, of new plagues or diseases in neighboring agricultural among others, meet targets of competitiveness, food areas or the introduction of cultural techniques safety and respect of the environment with a view to potentially capable of causing an increase in plague the continued life of a countryside capable of numbers, are some of the examples of the kind of overcoming the adversities emerging in our sector by information gathered and periodically updated on its the day. It is impossible to maintain a promising web page. sector without technological innovation in such a competitive field, hence our entire surrounding environment is striving to meet the technological A team of 195 people needs of the agrifood world”. The Neiker human team consists of 195 people, 34 of whom are degree-holders, 43 doctors, 74 assistants Regarding the situation of Euskadi in this area, the and 44 scholarship-holders. All of those working at Director of Neiker assures that “we are lucky to have the company are aware that technological innovation technology centers in different areas such as the is a strategic factor in the framework of action of automotive, aerospace or mechanics industries, which, today’s legislation and the only way to compete on the though of prime importance at European level, are increasingly more difficult agrifood markets. also needed at the agrifood level”.

R&D PROJECTS following lines of work: ANALYTICAL SERVICES •Food and production systems VEGETABLE PRODUCTION AND Covering, among other aspects: PROTECTION DEPARTMENT •Genetic improvement and reproduction •Agriculture The aim of this department is to •Experimental sheep flocks •Land, substrata and foliar improve crop health, quality and •Agrisystems and animal analysis. productivity by applying production laboratory •Advice on fertilizers and innovating, environment-friendly solutions for soil-free crops technologies. Its major lines of ANIMAL HEALTH •Animal nutrition work are: DEPARTMENT •Analysis of raw materials, •Genetic improvement Has the general objectives of fodder,mixtures, portions… •Agronomy guaranteeing human biological •Animal health •Vegetable protection safety with respect to diseases of •Diagnosis of illnesses, milk •Warning network: animal origin, and of how to quality, reproductive Agricultural and Forestry improve the health and wellbeing pathology… of farm animals.The department •Environment and nature AGRISYSTEMS AND ANIMAL is structured into 7 areas: •Analysis of water and waste, PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT •Parasitology Splits its activities between the •Environmental biosafety refuse study and parasite Derio and Arkaute centers. •General microbiology identification. Includes two main areas: •Epidemiology ∑ AGRISYSTEMS: responsible for •Molecular techniques the integrated study and use of •Pathological anatomy TECHNICAL SERVICES production means in environment- •Bacteriology and immunology These services are provided to both friendly systems. It has 3 lines of the Basque public administrations work: BIOTECHNOLOGY and to agricultural concerns, •Soils and fertilization DEPARTMENT sectorial and professional •Forage and fatural resource Lines of work: systems •Applied genomics and associations, management centers, •Agrarian environment proteomics etc. with a view to expediting the ∑ANIMAL PRODUCTION: •Genetic transformation transfer and application of basically studies animal •Environmental biotechnology technologies to the sector.They reproduction, food-nutrition and •Biocomputer science and range from the warning network genetics. It concentrates on the automation to a large library started in 1851.

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MENDIKOI leads the way in the training of agricultural professionals

Landa inguruneko profesionalen (Bizkaia) and Arkaute (Alava), and another two new ones, trebakuntza bermatzeko, Eusko the Arantzazu Escuela de Pastores (Gipuzkoa) and the Jaurlaritzak MENDIKOI sortu zuen 1997. Laguardia Escuela de Vitivinicultura (Alava). 70% of their students find jobs in the agricultural industry on completing urtean. Proiektu horretan bost nekazaritza their intermediate and higher education at these centers. eskolak eman zuen izena helburu berarekin: Euskadiko lehen sektoreko Each of these schools -as explained by José Javier belaunaldi aldaketa modernizatzea, Ormazabal, Director of the Fraisoro center- is independent profesionalizatzea eta bermatzea. and offers different courses. “However, he adds, they share a common goal: modernization, professionalization and guaranteed generational takeover of the Basque primary he training of professionals planning to work in the sector”. Another objective at these centers is to reestablish rural environment is a basic pillar for the future of our country’s territorial balance, in living conditions the primary sector.That’s why, in 1997, the Basque comparable with urban areas and contributing to maintaining TGovernment Department of Agriculture, Fisheries the local culture and traditions”.This doesn’t mean that and Food united the forces until then developed separately teaching methods are anchored in the past, but quite the by the three Basque provinces, grouping them together in a opposite, given their target of introducing new techniques to common project named MENDIKOI, including the already the rural world for improvement of the agricultural and existing agricultural schools of Fraisoro (Gipuzkoa), Derio livestock production process.“Nowadays, most activities are

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mechanized and robotized, and that’s the path we have to follow if we want to be competitive and make the sector attractive to youngsters”.

Technicians in two years

Anuska Ezkurra, Head of External Communications at MENDIKOI, comments that the three centers teach intermediate and higher agricultural vocational training courses. Students choosing the 1st grade can obtain the title of Garden Technician (at all three centers), a diploma in Extensive Farming (in Arkaute), in Intensive Farming (in Derio) and in Livestock Farming (Fraisoro).The 2nd grade offers students the chance to study Farm Management and Organization (Arkaute and Fraisoro), and the Management and Organization of Natural and Landscape Resources (Derio).

Each educational grade lasts for two school years (2,000 From chef to gardener hours), during which practical teaching occupies 50% in the intermediate grade and 40% in the higher grade. Students Having worked as a chef for a decade in his family also receive additional training at some of the state-of-the- restaurant, Estebe López de Muniain decided it was art companies in the sector with which MENDIKOI has time to change directions at the age of 26 and collaboration agreements.This practice lasts from between started studying gardening at MENDIKOI Fraisoro. 350 and 400 hours and is for many students their first During the first year he combined his theoretical and contact with the working world.This training can be taken practical classes with evening and weekend work at in other European countries thanks to the scholarships the restaurant. His objective is well defined: “when awarded under the Leonardo da Vinci Program.Thanks to I pass my garden technician diploma, I’ll go for the this aid, at the end of 2005, three students from the Derio job of municipal gardener, I’ll sit exams between school traveled to Sweden, four from Fraisoro to Slovenia applicants or do whatever it takes”. What I really and Finland and three from Arkaute to Holland. want is an outdoor job,“because I’ve been working indoors for ten years and it’s killing me”. He says A total of 221 students enrolled in 2005: 61 in Arkaute, that he’s not worried about the rain or winter 107 in Derio and 53 in Fraisoro. weather and that this year, during the practical classes, he “quite happily” worked under several Girl and boy students studying at MENDIKOI have the downpours. option to live in or travel from home every day. Most of them choose to live in, given that classes start at 8.30 a.m. and This youngster, who lives in , ten minutes no transport is available to take them there at that time. from MENDIKOI Fraisoro, has been well acquainted with flowers and ornamental plants since childhood Aid for young farmers thanks to his mother’s garden.“I was always asking her, how do these ones grow? What are these ones But MENDIKOI also offers the opportunity of vocational called?... I only knew two or three: busy lizzies, and intensive training in the shape of courses lasting from hydrangeas, but now I know about eight thousand”. between 20-30 hours and 2006-600 hours respectively on Bulbs are one of his favorites, and particularly specific subjects and backed by official Basque Government daffodils, “they’re really easy to grow and will be diplomas serving to get them started in the sector. Last with you for the rest of your life once planted”. year’s wide-ranging offer included 104 courses in the three Estebe is in no hurry.“If I have to continue studying centers on subjects as different as: the prevention of and taking more specialized courses, I’ll do it occupational hazards on farms, the designing of because I don’t need the work”. The design classes educational-tourist activities in natural surroundings, farm were extremely useful and he has also learned to management, viticulture and enology, plagues and diseases work in a group. Another thing he recognizes thanks in ornamental plants, introduction to soil-free crop growth to his accumulated theoretical and practical (hydroponics), introduction to ecological horticulture and knowledge is that his own garden is looking much fruit growing, fruit tree pruning and grafting, bovine better. artificial insemination, shearing techniques, basic spring beekeeping and the management of country homes and farmhouses, among others.

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outstanding of which are financial aid to the promoter in the shape of seed capital and the help of a monitor specializing in the subject for development and introduction of the promoter’s project.

An exportable model

Thanks to the Forestry, Farming and Livestock Cooperation Agreement between the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture and the Basque Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, MENDIKOI and the Chile Foundation created a training-employment program under which 15 young Chileans participate in the different intensive courses each year.Four of these students were therefore able to study viticulture and enology in 2005; while another three took an intensive shepherding course at the Escuela de Pastores, yet another four studied country and farmhouse accommodation, and the same number studied horticulture.

José Javier Ormazabal, Director of the Fraisoro center, and Anuska MENDIKOI has collaboration agreements with Venezuela, Ezkurra, Head of External Communications thanks to which it has designed, developed and launched 16 training courses in the fields of agriculture and livestock, agricultural transformation and fishing, currently taught at In 2005, the Basque Government, the three provincial the Instituto Nacional de Cooperación (INCE) in the said councils and MENDIKOI created the enormously successful South American country. GazteNEK Young Farmers’ Plan born with the purpose of encouraging the incorporation of young farmers to the It also has relations with the Mexican state of Querétaro, primary sector and to guaranteeing the generational takeover. where a study is underway on the situation of rural This project comprises 20 points, some of the most development in the Sierra Gorda region of Arroyo Seco.

Model installation

MENDIKOI Arkaute has 20 MENDIKOI Derio has different MENDIKOI Fraisoro has its own hectares of land, a wide range of plots in which to practice livestock farm consisting of computer- extensive crops, including five horticulture: 400 sq.m. of ecological controlled milk cows with a robotized hectares dedicated to ecological vegetable garden, 600 sq.m. of milking system, a flock of meat cows and crops; 2 hectares of market garden open-air garden space, 420 sq.m. a flock of sheep, in addition to 20 with a varied collection of vegetable dedicated to hydroponics and 320 hectares of land on which students can species; 3,000 square meters of sq.m. covered in plastic; gardens and practice producing forage, how to use seedbeds and greenhouses for the a wide range of ornamental machinery and agronomy. The center production of ornamental plants; a vegetation growing on a hectare of occupies 4,000 sq.m. with the most chemical laboratory for 20 places; land; a nursery; fruit trees (1,100 modern horticultural and ornamental machinery and mechanical sq.m.), different installations plant producing techniques, a greenhouse equipment, an agricultural workshop ranging from plastic tunnels (320 for hydroponic crops, workshops equipped for extensive crops and gardening; sq.m.) to multi-tunnels (650 sq.m.) with cutting-edge machinery and other groundbreaking control and or automated glass greenhouses installations including: a beekeeping regulating equipment for plant (710 sq.m.) and a wide range of station, an agricultural laboratory, a health treatment; and a dairy and state-of-the-art machinery and meteorological station, a tree and bush food product plant. equipment. collection, an autochthonous forest, a fruit [email protected] [email protected] tree plantation and gardens. [email protected]

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«Eusko Label», a quality reference

Kalitatea fundazioak arreta handia mark is the “K” for kalitatea or quality, the only eskaintzen dio “Eusko Label” zigilua duten product certification existing in the Basque Country. nekazaritzako eta elikadurarako The aim of this label is to boost, promote and develop quality agrifood products with mechanisms serving to produktuak kalitatearengatik nabarmendu make them valued, different and appreciated on the daitezen merkatuan. Hainbat eratako market while setting them apart from their produktuei ipintzen zaie labela; hala nola competitors. oilasko zein arkume haragiari, esneari, indabei, tomateari edota Gernikako The characteristics and demanding requirements of each product are stipulated in the rules of usage, and the body piperrei. Era berean, “jatorrizko responsible for managing the “Eusko Label” is the izendapena” duten produktuak ere Kalitatea Foundation, constituted by the Basque zaintzen ditu; hala nola, gazta Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and edota txakolina. Food in August 1998.

Eleven products currently offer the Eusko Label he “Eusko Label” distinguishes agrifood guarantee: beef, farmhouse chicken, suckling lamb, products grown, transformed and/or made in the northern tuna (bonito and cimarrón), high-quality TBasque Autonomous Community, the quality or pasteurized milk, honey, potatoes from Alava, peppers singularity of which are above average.The identifying from Gernika, hot peppers from Ibarra, quality tomatoes

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But in addition to inspecting “Eusko Label” products, «Our aim is the Kalitatea Foundation also controls and issues certifications for products bearing the Idiazabal to become a Denomination of Origin stamp, Integrated Production reference for and the three Txakoli wines existing in Euskadi: Getaria, Bizkaia and Alava. placing so much Natural and cultural assets The main objective or mission of Kalitatea is to boost, importance promote and develop quality farming, fishing and food on quality» products and to guarantee their origin, safety and quality to consumers.The aim of this mission is to increase product competitiveness and cost-effectiveness for producers and companies, thus contributing to their appreciation, fame and continuation and to protecting the natural and cultural resources contributed by the and black beans in their three strains from Tolosa, primary sector. Gernika and Alava with its pinto bean. In this respect, during the second quarter of 2005, the The “Euskal Baserri” brand name similarly identifies Kalitatea Foundation fostered a process of reflection fruit and vegetables grown in small vegetable gardens with a view to establishing the strategic lines for 2006- or concerns close to Basque farmhouses, as per tradition 2010, deriving both from the needs and demands of its down through the generations, a system permitting group of interest and from the requirements of its own baserritarras to tend them lovingly. These rather impulse and internal reality. “spoiled” plants are extremely healthy, with superior nutritional and sensorial quality, excellent presentation The analysis concludes that the Basque agrifood sector and information and a Basque origin and tradition has a number of characteristic and conditioning features. guaranteed by controls and the Kalitatea Foundation. “This is a sector which, although not particularly structured, highly atomized, not exceedingly professionalized, with scarce presence at the Good results in 2005 transformation and marketing levels and contributing The year 2005 was outstanding due to the fact that little to the Basque GNP, has outstanding social products offering the “Eusko Label” increased by 16% importance”. to achieve a turnover of over Euro 87 million. Among the products to have experienced the greatest rise are Given this diagnosis and with eyes set on the near future, northern and red tuna, thanks to the good fishing season the desire is to progress towards a more concentrated, and greater involvement of fishermen in the project, not more highly specialized and internally competitive sector to mention incorporation of the harbors and ports of with better technology. “Our aim -they affirm- is to Donostia, Pasaia and Lekeitio. become a reference for placing so much importance on quality”. Noteworthy among the fruit and vegetable products are quality tomatoes and peppers from Gernika, expected to To achieve all of these objectives, Kalitatea has two shortly earn the “denomination of origin” recognition, different areas: dynamization/promotion and results obtained thanks to the efforts of the more than control/certification. 3,000 producers who embrace this philosophy of quality. Control and certification staff have everything they need “It’s the baserritarras and arrantzales who have made to guarantee the origin, safety and quality of products and continue to make a tremendous effort to comply to consumers. They work in close proximity with with the new legal requirements on health, animal producers and agrifood companies, instilling the decisive welfare, respect of the environment, traceability... and to need for quality, safety and health and a culture of adapt to consumer trends and new market demands”, excellence as the basis of product competitiveness and indicated sources at the Kalitatea Foundation. “These for the sustained development of their resources. are producers -they added- committed to quality, who voluntarily accept an analytical plan and exhaustive In turn, the people working on their dynamization and control. Specifically, in 2005 over 5,100 audits and promotion employ all of the necessary instruments to inspections and over 3,700 laboratory analyses were make agrifood products competitive thanks to the quality carried out”. and management of their brand image.

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ANA EIZAGIRRE, Agricultural Technical Engineer

«We use a preventive rather than curative biological fight»

At her farmhouse, Aitzeta, in Aizarnazabal, Gipuzkoa, Ana Eizagirre mainly grows Basque “label” tomatoes and a smaller amount of black beans corresponding to the “Tolosa” denomination of origin. AWith 24,000 sq.m. of farmland, this 35-year-old Agricultural Technician and her two brothers professionally grow products, which, thanks to today’s techniques and care, arrive on the market with exceptional quality and guarantees. “In my house we had always worked the garden to help us out; but about twenty years ago my father decided that if we were to continue we had to go professional. We like the work”.

This means that you no longer see tomatoes growing outdoors in the vegetable garden, “everything is covered and we change crops if one doesn’t pay. The climate here is really humid, and fungus or other plagues and diseases easily attack fruit, meaning that it’s better to treat it well to stop it from rotting, but always with the right products. The thing is that nature is wise and you can’t just use chemical «The label not only compounds that kill insects and everything else. We provides information use a preventive rather than curative biological for consumers but also fight”. for the health control Heat, water and the appropriate fertilizer are the inspectors who keep three elements required by this greenhouse tomato for it to reach the market big and shining, because, watch over the whole according to Ana Eizagirre, Basque consumers like process» their tomatoes large-size and demand excellent “label” quality, as she says, from a product that only needs a good oil, vinegar and a little salt for a workmanship”, according to Ana Eizagirre. In dressing. She likes her tomatoes with spring onions addition, this is a crop that has to grow outdoors, or, depending on personal tastes, a little garlic. requiring “high investment” to ensure that it does so properly. It’s a lovely product, but it doesn’t produce This tomato from Aizarnazabal comes with the a lot; you have to keep a good eye open for flowering, “Aitzeta Label”, not only providing information for rain…” That’s why beans are grown in smaller consumers, but also for the health control inspectors proportions than tomatoes at Aitzeta. who keep watch over the whole process. Next, generally in packets, they are distributed to food That’s also why it’s not surprising that it rises in markets, hypermarkets or other smaller price each season, becoming increasingly more establishments. exquisite, the preparation of which, though simple, is carefully tended in the best restaurants. Meanwhile, The “Tolosa” black bean generally reaches the at Aizarnazabal, the Eizagirre family continues to market at an increasingly high price, a difficult test other horticultural products with a view to problem to solve, because it requires a “great deal of achieving good crops.

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Elkarrizketa Interview

JON BAGÜÉ Director of Eresbil, the Basque Music Archive ÁNCHEZ S ABLO P ©

«Our files contain documents detailing the stage design and choreographies for the Saski-Naski show»

Jon Bagüés Eresbil Musikaren Euskal Eresbil houses a wide range of musical material. Does it also house sound archives by Basque musicians Artxiboko zuzendaria da; Errenterian dotted all over the world? du egoitza artxiboak. Dituen helburuen Of course, and it goes without saying that these are artean daude euskaldunek konposatutako something we are extremely interested in obtaining. musika eta munduko edozein tokitan There have been very specific cases of the family interpretatutakoa biltzea. members of musicians donating music of this kind to Eresbil as was the case, for example, of Pedro José Iguain’s relations, who traveled to Buenos Aires, collected all of his scores and brought them to us.The Jon Bagüés is the Director of Eresbil, the Basque same thing happened with a highly interesting Music Archive with its central offices in , collection brought to us from Uruguay by the Gipuzkoa. Born in the same town, Jon Bagüés daughter of Tomás Música, a composer of orchestra started playing the txistu with the Andra Mari music. We recovered one of the works from this Choir, created by Eresbil. His art history studies led collection, a piece entitled “Escenas camperas” Jhim to the history of music and, more specifically, to (“Country Scenes”) for orchestra and guitar, made a archives. He created the Arantzazu archive, and clean copy of it and played it at Musikaste in 1993. wrote his thesis on music in the Sociedad One highly unusual and interesting case is that of Bascongada de Amigos del País. He went on to Emiliana Zubeldia, a female composer who worked at study archiving in Madrid, already thinking of the the University of Sonora, Mexico, or that of Ignacio possibility of working at Eresbil, to which he has Tellería, a late-19th and early-20th Century composer been related since 1981. who had been in Cuba.

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©PABLO SÁNCHEZ Is this Basque music from the continues to write based on other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Basque themes and titles. The its rhythms and tunes, focus was mainly placed on reminiscent of Basque traditional performing his works for the music or does it have more of an piano. His music was acquired influence? accompanied by that of an A little of both. While there are Argentinean composer of Basque traces of its roots, there are also roots, specifically Albistur and other influences. Although they Segura, Juan Pedro Esnaola, by continue to use Basque themes whom we programmed works for or themes related to the Basque song and piano on texts by Country, the composers also use another Basque native, Esteban folkloric themes adapted to the Echeverría; and, finally, José style of their country of Antonio Santesteban, whose adoption. I think it’s interesting centenary will be celebrated this to collect as much information as year, a composer who had been possible, or at least to obtain a completely forgotten, and who copy of it. I’m of the belief that wrote a collection of works for things are better kept in the song and piano in the second place they were made, as long as half of the 19th Century, the they are properly preserved. Aires Vascongados Collection, Although some works may also which was widely performed be on the point of disappearing throughout the Basque Country. because nobody cares about As you can see, it was a day that them; we would simply adore to made us realize just how much receive legacies like that. And there is to be recovered. not only the scores of composers who emigrated from the Basque Does it take a lot of imagination Country to other places, but also to organize a festival as complex the sound documents of as this? performers who spent their lives A bit. Luckily, this year we had there or Basque choirs created in several performers who places like the USA, where presented their own projects and people who went to work formed were delighted to do so. groups or choirs and even, in some cases, recorded records or I’m of the b“elief that things In addition to sound documents, cassettes. are best left in the place does Eresbil also have they were made, as long iconographic documents or the The harpist Nicanor Zabaleta was like? another of the great artists as they are properly We have, for example, the entire closely linked to Latin America. preserved stage design and choreography, Yes, also because of his marriage perfectly explained, for the to Graciela Torres, a lady from “Saski-Naski” show staged in Puerto Rico, who has entrusted her entire program Argentina in the 50s. Next year we will celebrate the collection to Eresbil. He gave an incredible number of centenary of the birth of the composer Francisco de concerts and was the object of tremendous devotion. Madina, who worked in Buenos Aires and in New For instance, somebody in Mexico wrote a thesis on York, and who orchestrated the music for “Saski- Nicanor Zabaleta. Naski”. It would be truly interesting to recover this work because, together with the documentation we Eresbil was essentially born around Musikaste, the already have available, the show could be put on music festival held in Errenteria from which the idea again at any time. It was organized into stage settings was born of recovering little-know composers. A featuring Basque dances intermingled with the special new day was organized at the festival last occasional Argentinean dance. It was a curious May, entitled “Miradas recíprocas”. feature of the fifties that even had drawings by Yes, and it was extremely interesting. We were able to Néstor Basterretxea, which news from the time would feature music by the composer from , Luis have it went as far as to participate in the dance Miguel de Zulategi, who moved to Medellín and groups.

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KARMELE LLANO Veterinary surgeon

Bilboko Karmele Llano albaitariak ProAnimalia GKE sortu du, eta Indonesian lan egiten du desagertzeko zorian dauden primateekin. Ondasun material gutxiago izanda ere zoriontsu bizi daitekeela ikusi du, era berean

Karmele Llano is a young vet from Bilbao who lives in Indonesia, where she created the NGO ProAnimalia, the Kobjective of which is to save animals in danger of extinction. An admirer of Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, this A Basque girl, savior of ecologist activist puts everything she has into protecting the macaque and slow lorises species, the worst treated primates in Indonesia primates in this Asian country from which she has learned that you don’t save the animal species in greatest which can be made via the web page: need a lot of worldly possessions to be need. “We were both highly concerned www.ProAnimalia.org happy. by the situation of macaques”, says Karmele knows the ground she’s “I’ve always been interested in Karmele, moved. “This species of walking on and is well aware that her ecology, animals and nature”, declares primates is treated like rats in relationship with the Indonesian this intrepid 28-year-old Basque girl. Indonesia. They are mistreated, government has to be “as politically “Ever since I was a child I wanted to tortured and tied to posts where they correct as possible, I wouldn’t be be a vet, and the first time I set an spend all day in the sun and rain. there otherwise. The government -she animal free in the jungle again I knew Some people eat their brains, opening adds- is extremely corrupt and doesn’t that’s what I wanted to do”. the skull while the animal is still alive. know how to appreciate the work Karmele came into contact with These primates have no protection and we’re doing in their country. If we monkeys for the first time in yet they have a highly developed weren’t there, there would be neither Venezuela. From there she went to culture and an important social jungle nor animals in it. All of the Holland, where she worked at structure.They can’t bear to live alone help we receive to save the Stichting AAP, a center dedicated to and some of them go mad because environment in Indonesia comes from the rescuing of monkeys and other they are forced to spend their lives tied outside the country”. On the subject mammals by freeing them from up or in a cage”. of the Indonesians’ personal values, laboratories, circuses, etc. Shortly That’s what gave us the idea of Karmele prefers to ignore the vain and afterwards, while surfing the net, she creating the NGO ProAnimalia, with conceited attitude of the wealthy, who found what she was looking for. “I the purpose of rescuing them. “Right also have a serious inferiority complex found a center in Indonesia that now, as well as the project with with respect to foreigners, preferring appealed to me for its work with macaques, we have launched another the humbleness and hospitality of the orangutans and because the country one to save slow lorises, a species of poor.She would like to bring a little of has a large variety of primates. I went nocturnal primates similarly exploited that humbleness to Euskadi, “I’d like there as a volunteer for three months, and scorned for their size in serious to show people that you can live after which I found it really difficult danger of extinction”. The perfectly happily with far less worldly to leave”. ProAnimalia team consists of Femke, possessions”. All I ask of the future On that first trip to Indonesia she Karmele and a group of Indonesians. “is to be able to continue our project met Femke den Haas, a Dutch woman Right now funding comes from other in Indonesia, find funding here and who introduced her to her plans to organizations and private donations, work there”.

20 BASQUE YOUTH Issue 73. Year 2006 BASQUE YOUTH

ASIER AZPIRITXAGA AND MIREN MICHELLE BARRIOLA

Euskal jatorria duten Caracaseko senar-emazte ingeniari hauek Mondragón Unibertsitatean master bat egiten ari dira Euskal Herrirantz bekarekin. Euskadin izandako egonaldia ikasketak indartzeko baliagarri zaie, bai eta aiton-amonen lurraldea ezagutzeko ere

Asier Azpiritxaga and Miren Michelle old. Two of my grandfather’s seven attending classes and doing a paid job Barriola were born in Caracas, married in 2003, and two years later Abrought a complete about-turn to their lives, almost as exciting as that experienced by their grandparents on Two Basque-Caracan deciding to emigrate from Euskadi to Venezuela. This Basque-Caracan couple decided to go the whole hog, engineers in Oñate left their respective jobs and moved to Oñati to study their masters degrees at brothers and sisters had already in a company. Asier, a civil engineer, the University of Mondragón thanks to emigrated to Caracas. The Basque continues to study his master and both the Basque Government Euskal colony, including Asier’s grandfather, will have to present an end-of-degree Herrirantz scholarship. Both admit helped them to settle, and that’s where project in October. that they are open to any projects that my other four uncles were born, all of At no time have they felt like may come up in Euskadi. whom still live in Venezuela”. immigrants. They assure us that their Asier is the son of a Basque- Miren, who had never been to dealings with people are “excellent Caracan father and a mother from Euskadi, had a biased view of the and very friendly”. Their family Pamplona brought up in Caracas. “My country, conveyed by her grandfather, relations in Donostia have contributed paternal grandfather came from who at the age of 90 still takes an to this wellbeing. “They helped us to Durango and decided to emigrate with interest in what’s going on here and, settle and introduced us to their a fishing expedition after having fallen particularly, in the matches played by everyday lives, to their cuadrillas as prisoner on the Catalonian front. My the Real. “He never really liked talking they call them here”. The grandmother was from Pasaia and had about his life. He suffered a lot here “international” aspect of the master also emigrated to Venezuela. They met and his silence prevented us from has also helped them not to feel like in Caracas -where they still live- being prejudiced. Now he’s delighted at foreigners. They share the classroom married, and had my father and his my decision to come and I play the with four Venezuelans, a Chilean, a siblings. My mother, who was from part of the reporter for him”. Columbian and a Greek man, in Pamplona, emigrated to Caracas with Asier had already been to Euskadi addition to their other colleagues from her family when she was two. She with his family on another three Euskadi. Everyday life is easy, safe and made friends with my father at occasions. They set out on this fourth comfortable, despite having to travel university and at the Euskal Etxea, trip for him and first for Miren as a every day from Donostia, where they and they decided to set up home “unrepeatable opportunity” to improve live, to Oñati. “In Caracas, they say, we together”. their studies.“We chose the ETEO, the could take an hour or more to get to The history of Miren’s forebears is Business Sciences Faculty of work too”. They mainly appreciate very similar: “My father was born in Mondragón University for our masters feeling safe in the street and the health Donostia, and my grandfather and studies because we liked their system system. Miren has come to the grandmother moved to Caracas with of mixing theory with practice”. Since conclusion that “in developed their three little children, fleeing the April, Miren, who has a degree in countries people complain about the war, when my father was less than a industrial engineering, has been way things function, but they really year old. Two of my grandfather’s year attending classes and doing has been don’t appreciate what they have”.

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Construction of the Basque high-speed network to start at the end of the year

On April 24, the Basque and Spanish Governments signed the framework agreement for joint construction of the High-Speed Railway (HSR) linking the three Basque capitals, known as the Basque ‘Y’. Following two decades of controversy and delays, the signing of this agreement permits work to start on one of the most important Basque infrastructures of the century, to be completed in 2010 and costing over Euros 4bn. The Basque ‘Y’ will link Euskadi to Europe and to the rest of the Iberian Peninsula. This is a mixed railway line connecting the three Basque capitals, on which passengers and goods will travel at a much faster speed than offered by the conventional network while efficiently complementing and strengthening the currently existing railway system. The high-speed train will cover the distance between Vitoria-Gasteiz and Donostia-San Sebastián in 34 minutes; between Bilbao and «The new Basque Donostia in 38 minutes, and Railway is an between Bilbao and Gasteiz in 27 minutes. extraordinary alternative The Basque Minister for to road transport Transport and Public Works, Nuria López de Gereñu, confirmed that compatible with and the agreement marks a “definite” respectful of the step forward in the development of Basque self-government, explaining environment» that the Autonomous Executive will develop the infrastructure Basque railway network “will link corresponding to the stretch of up to the conventional network and railway line running through to other methods of transport to Gipuzkoa, to do which it will consolidate and increase the advance funding subsequently intermodal options available to recovered from taxes due to Spain Basque inhabitants. This is a key under the Concert. infrastructure for developing our López de Gereñu explained that community’s advanced economy the Basque high-speed railway will and welfare state. The new Basque form part of the Madrid-Vitoria- Railway Network is an Paris Transeuropean Transport extraordinary alternative to road Network earmarked as a “priority” transport compatible with and by the European Community. López respectful of the environment”, she Nuria López de Gereñu, Basque Minister of de Gereñu said that the new concluded. Transport and Public Work

22 CURRENT EVENTS Issue 73. Year 2006 CURRENT EVENTS The Mondragón Cooperatives celebrate their half-century of existence The Mondragón Cooperatives, end of 2005, MCC was the grouped around MCC, have leading employer in Gipuzkoa «MCC is now the turned fifty, celebrating the with 20,325 direct employees; biggest experience in occasion with several events at in Bizkaia with 12,550 workers; which homage was paid to José holding third place in Alava with the world with respect María Arizmendiarrieta, creator 2,500 workers and second to development in the and promoter of the cooperative position in Navarre with 3,800 field of cooperation, the movement in this town of employees. Gipuzkoa. The immediate challenge seventh business group These fifty years have seen faced by MCC is the tackling of in Spain and the leader how the little household new areas of activity in the appliances workshop with which endeavor to maintain in Euskadi» the Mondragón Cooperative employment growth in Euskal started its activity has grown into Herria. According to its one of the biggest cooperative Chairman, Jesús Catania, in a dedicated to the sector. A health experiences in the world, the few years time, some of the care cooperative is moreover seventh biggest business concern company’s current activities underway to manage homes for in Spain and the leading Basque «will make very little sense». the elderly. The group is also group, representing 3.8% of its That’s why he considers it placing its stakes on the creation active workforce and GNP, and essential «to do new things», of «mixed» work groups based 8.3% of employment and the among which he listed activities on joint participation by the industrial GNP. like aerospace, telecom- company, the university and Employing a total of 71,000 munications or care of the research and development people in over 2006 industrial, elderly. centers. The cornerstones of the financial and distribution The cooperatives have started strategic plan are interna- companies all over the world, the to make «machines for the tionalization, innovation, company expects staff figures to aerospace industry», having promotion and the revival of reach 95,000 by 2008. At the bought a British company cooperative values

MCC IN THE WORLD

Issue 73. Year 2006 GAURKO GAIAK 23 EUSKADITIK ORBELL C ARLOS K ©

Ahotsak, Basque women’s voices for peace Following the ETA ceasefire, on Mertxe Aizpurua and Béatrice April 8 in San Sebastián two Molle. Before reading the hundred women representing all of document, they recalled other the political and trade union initiatives led by women in other organizations in Euskal Herria, countries in conflict: Colombia, with the exception of the PP and Northern Ireland and Israel. the UPN, presented a declaration The text made three points. advocating peace and Firstly, that peace «is not only a reconciliation, in which they question of the absence of any kind demanded respect for «the Ahotsak blog. of violence», but is «linked to decision» of Basque men and democracy, social justice, to a women regarding «the legal- Two hundred women process of change permitting political framework». The women, representing all of the citizens to consider historical who signed the document in their conflicts as closed and turn the own names, formed the platform political and trade union page in terms of rights and Ahotsak with the purpose, as organizations in Euskal freedoms». indicated by its name in Basque, of Secondly, that «we have to seek contributing «voices» to fostering Herria call for respect of a scenario permitting and progression of the peace process the decision taken by guaranteeing the development and and converting women into «active materialization of all projects agents». Directly behind a banner Basque citizens regarding through political and democratic bearing the platform anagram, the legal-political channels in conditions of equality». were Gemma Zabaleta (PSE-EE), framework And thirdly, that if Basque society Jone Goirizelaia (), «wishes to transform, change or Gemma González de Txabarri maintain its currently existing (PNV), Begoña Errazti (EA), the French Socialist Colette legal-political framework, all men Kontxi Bilbao (EB), Aintzane Capdevielle and Mertxe Colina, and women» should respect the Ezenarro (Aralar) and Nekane from the independence supporters’ guarantees and political procedures Erauskin (EHAK). Alongside them movement, Abertzaleen Batasuna. agreed upon so that «the decision at the function held in the Palacio The declaration was read out in of Basque society is respected and, de Miramar, was Aihnoa Aznarez, Basque, Spanish and French by the if necessary, mirrored by from the Navarre Socialist Party, journalists Maddalen Iriarte, legislation».

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Rural 21st Century Euskadi in images Extraordinary success of the book “Euskadi rural Siglo XXI. Euskadiko baserri eta arrantza kontuak” published in November 2005 by the Basque Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and MENDIKOI S.A. has given rise to the travelling photograph exhibition entitled “Euskadi rural siglo XXI-Ezagutu eta eskertu” opened by the Lehendakari on May 16 in Alegria-Dulantzi, Alava, from where it will travel to different towns and cities in the three Basque provinces. In this exhibition, the photographs of Mikel Arrazola reflect the life of livestock Above, the Lehendakari and the Basque Government breeders, farmers, fishermen, Minister for Agriculture, forest owners, big and small Fisheries and Food, Mikel businesses, men and women Arrazola, at the opening of the exhibition whose main activity is farming, livestock or fishing. The aim of this cultural initiative is to show society the reality of the Basque primary sector as an active industry with a future, which, in addition to meeting its productive purpose, Benjamin Deeg Brocal, a Basque-German provides and guarantees another snowboard champion in Germany series of resources to society in general: territorial and Benjamin Deeg Brocal, son of a environmental, social and woman from San Sebastián living cultural resources, openly in Germany, was proclaimed demonstrating a multifunctional champion of the German national character obvious from the snowboard competition in the selection of images. It also seeks freestyle/slopestyle modes. This implication from the different sport,consisting of sliding over the agents working for and in the snow on a snowboard comlete with countryside, given that the fixtures, as we can see in the itinerary followed by the picture, grew strongly from the exhibition will be established by 90s onwards due to the fact that it requests from Rural Development is so spectacular and much easier Associations responsible for to learn than ski-ing. Snowboard fixtures never unfasten until their organizing its presentation in user decides to remove them and each place. the boots are generally softer than At the end of the day, this is a those used for ski. Snowboard has heartfelt recognition of the men been an Olympic sport ever since and women who demonstrate a the Nagano Winter Olympics ‘98. lively Euskadi unknown to many yet dynamic, enthusiastic and http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowboard tenacious.

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«Orhipean. The Country of Basque», now available in French and English “Orhipean”, a publication mid-way between a book and a miniature encyclopedia, was launched in early May in Baiona in its French version, entitled “Orhipean. Le Pays de la langue Basque”. Soon to come out in English, this publication dates back to 1992, when it was brought out in Euskera by Juan Carlos Etxegoien with the implication of Txema Aranaz from the Pamiela publishing house. Four years later saw release of the Spanish version, updated last year. The author of the text was Basque culture.Thirty chapters take cider or wine... or emigration with similarly responsible for the original the reader through the same stops, for example, in Argentina and illustrations and drawings, graphic number of subjects including the USA. material now increased with a large prehistory, the language, folklore, selection of photographs and all shepherding, mythology, beliefs, oral sorts of information about the and written literature, the world of www.pamiela.org

The 54th Festival will dedicate a retrospective to Lubitsch and screen some thirty films on the subject of emigration

The filmography of to this selection, we German moviemaker will find the long- Ernst Lubitsch and a standing Zabaltegi, section dedicated to Horizontes Latinos, emigration are the two with its Films in most remarkable Progress section, novelties of the 54th Made in Spain and San Sebastian Film the Horizontes Festival, to take place Selection, the from September 21- retrospective 30. When introducing dedicated to Ernst its different sections, Lubitsch, and the Festival Director Mikel section entitled Olaciregui expressed a Emigrants with its 30 from Shanghai” and features the wish to maintain last movies. Olaciregui did actress Marisa Paredes.The poster is year’s spectators’ numbers of not however unveil the name of the the work of Art&Maña, a company 190,000. contemporary director to whom a which has repeatedly collaborated This year’s Official Selection will retrospective will be dedicated this with the Festival, winning several comprise 18 films made over the last year. international awards over the years. year not released outside their The posters for the different It so happens that its designer, Toni country of origin or screened at other sections were presented at the same Galindo, died on the day before the competitions. All of these works will news conference.This year’s principal poster was unveiled, hence the words compete for the major Festival image takes its inspiration from the spoken in his memory by the Festival award, the Golden Shell. In addition famous mirror scene in “The Lady organization.

26 CURRENT EVENTS Issue 73. Year 2006 MEXICO … ARGENTINA … CHILE … SAN FRANCISCO … SIDNEY … BUENOS AIRES … VILLA MARÍA … CARACAS … IDEAUHSKOA …L E STAXENA KJUAN … ROSARIBOA S…QU ME ECXENICTOE R…S María Luz Arteche, elected FEVA Chairwoman

María Luz Arteche (Euskaldu- participation in order to think nak Denak Bat in Arrecifes) was and construct the future of elected Chairwoman of the Basque Centers and of the Federation of Argentinean- Federation.“Let’s practise -she Basque Entities (FEVA) said- that very well known following the assembly held last catchphrase the ‘Basque word of April 1. The new Executive honor’.If we do,we will be sure of Committee, chaired by a woman having an enviable Basque

for the first time, will also community”. X include José Ordaiceta (Euzko While María Luz Arteche Etxea in La Plata) as first Vice- mentioned that the renovation of Chair; Mariano Ayesa (Denak FEVA had experienced the María Luz Arteche Bat in Mar del Plata), as second occasional “turbulence”, she

Vice-Chair; Felipe Eyheraguibel also insisted that “it’s all in the Launching the new executive T (Zazpirak Bat in Rosario), as past”,going on to recall that “for committee, the Chairwoman Secretary; and Carlos Sosa years, some of we Basque men invited those present to work (Unión Vasca in Bahía Blanca), and women belonging to the based on the seven words used by as Treasurer. organized Argentinean the Lehendakari Juan José Speaking her first words as community have been divided by Ibarretxe in the institutional Chairwoman, María Luz political-partisan militancy and declaration issued following E Arteche underlined that it “is have recently regarded one ETA’s announcement of a essential for the Basque Centers another with reservation and a permanent ceasefire:“Let’s try to realize that they are the certain amount of mistrust. I to work enthusiastically to

FEVA, that the institution think it has to be said, because it achieve our desired targets, belongs to them, that the FEVA doesn’t help to build what each according to the members’ is not the property of the Basque one of us really and truly wants”. mandate, in the hope of being Centers forming the Executive She also drew a parallel with able to walk together as true Committee, nor of any person the “new winds” blowing in friends, going about our transitorily holding a position or Euskal Herria: “Why don’t we commitment to the Basque Z function. It is the input of all try to make the same thing Centers constituting this federated Basque Centers that happen here, why don’t we Federation and to all of the will continue to pump life into convert this situation that’s agents in the Basque- FEVA, shaping it as we all hindering the taking of action Argentinean community, and

decide”. based on altruistic principles using dialogue as a tool to E The Chairwoman similarly into love for Euskal Herria and achieve consensus and stressed the need for active Argentina?”. integrated agreements”.

Joseba Arregi, new Advisor on Relations X with Basque Communities Joseba Arregi Orue has been International Studies at the named Advisor of the Department University of Iowa and worked and of Relations with Basque shared experiences with Nere Lete,

Communities, in substitution of founder of the Boise Ikastola. He T Asier Abaunza. Joseba Arregi is a speaks three languages fluently journalist and researcher into and has forged a professional International Relations at the career as lecturer and social University of the Basque Country, communicator at the university, in

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Josu Legarreta attends different events organized by Basque communities in Uruguay and Argentina

The Director of Relations with E Basque Communities, Josu Legarreta, participated last April 29 and 30 in the cultural activities organized by FIVU, the Federation of Basque- Uruguayan Institutions. X Outstanding among these events was the piano recital given by the accomplished musicians Ana Inés Aguirre, María Emilia

Zavala and Javier Villegas to T commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Father José Antonio de Donostia and the Basque Dance Festival, with the participation of the Uruguayan group Haize E Hegoa, the Rosario Basque Center and Urrundik from Paraná (Argentina). From 1-3 May and accompanied by the lecturer from the University of the Basque Country, Oskar Alvarez, Josu Legarreta presented the

project “Basques in the Z American press” to the Federation of Argentinean- Basque Entities, FEVA, and to the Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, La Plata, Mar del Plata, Rosario and Tandil E universities. With this same objective, he participated on the 4th and 5th the Bilbao City Council performance by the Bilbao City in the Seminar entitled “Basque Txistulari Band. This event was Council Txistulari Band, presence in the world and the attended by the Director of the received with lengthy applause X media” organized in Montevideo National Library, Dr. Tomás de from a delighted audience. by the Basque Government, the Mator, the ex-Vice-President of The voyage to Uruguay and Euskal Herria Basque Center, the Republic, Senator and Argentina ended on May 7 and Eusko Ikaskuntza, EuskoSare constitutionalist lawyer, Dr. 8 in Córdoba with several and the Centro de Estudios Gonzalo Aguirre, in addition to meetings with the Executive

Históricos y del Nacionalismo Josu Legarreta himself and Committee of the Basque T Vasco Arturo Campión. Professor Oskar Alvarez. Center, the University Rector The Seminar, held in the The Director of Relations and political and social media Montevideo National Library, with Basque Communities also representatives in order to was opened with a photograph visited the Basque community in coordinate the Basque National exhibition on Euskadi by Mikel La Plata, which organized a Week to take place in the last E Arrazola and a performance by cultural evening featuring a week of October this year

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Fernando Elkoroiribe

This former student at the Leioa cookery school now teaches the chefs of tomorrow. At the age of 36, Fernando Elkoroiribe has a great deal of experience in hands-on cookery and teaching, activities he carries out indistinctly without having decided to concentrate on one or the other. Desirous of acquiring other experiences, he headed for Argentina, where he worked as head chef for 31/2 years. Although during his time in the country he concentrated on what is known as “fusion cookery”, he assures us that he likes making all kinds of food: starters, meat and fish dishes or desserts.

P ROFITEROLES W I T H C R E A M A N D CHOCOLATE I N G R E D I E N T S

Ingredients for the P R E P A R A T I O N: choux pastry: -1 liter water 1• Put the water and butter in a pan -150 grs butter or and bring it to the boil. Add the margarine sieved flour and salt and beat -250 grs all-purpose well with a wooden spatula flour until the mixture forms a ball -5 grs salt and comes away easily from -6 or 7 eggs the sides of the pan. 2• Remove from the heat Stuffing ingredients: and leave to cool for a few -1 liter pouring cream minutes. -150 grs sugar 3• Add the eggs one at a Ingredients for the time, moving constantly with chocolate coating: the spatula until achieving the -150 grs chocolate desired consistency. It is -1 dl. water important to wait until one egg has been completely absorbed by the mixture before adding another one. 4• Fill a piping bag with a smooth or scalloped pastry nozzle and squeeze the 6• Whip the cream, adding the sugar when mixture onto a lightly greased tray. the cream is half-whipped. 5• Bake for 25 minutes at 200ºC in an oven 7• Put the chocolate, in pieces, into a pan with the door closed at first and then with the water and melt it opened for the profiteroles to dry.

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My grandfather, Vicente Indart, and my grandmother with their children: Juan José, Benigno, Ana and María Julia (my mother). Picture taken on 2 May 1930.

WASHINGTON GUILLERMO LARRALDE INDART JUAN LACAZE (COLONIA) URUGUAY

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