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	washingtonpost.com: Spain Rejects Proposal On Basque Independence
		Ibarretxe, the first regional president to be allowed to take part in a national parliament debate, calls the plan the only way to end more than three decades of bombings and assassinations by the separatist group ETA.
		Ibarretxe has vowed not to back down in the face of the parliamentary vote, saying he will call a public referendum in the Basque region to "consult" the population on his plan.
		The package, known as the Ibarretxe plan, was approved by the Basque regional parliament on Dec. 30 by a 51 percent majority composed primarily of Ibarretxe's Basque Nationalist Party and members of the outlawed party Batasuna, widely seen as the political wing of ETA.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A55430-2005Feb1?language=printer (420 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Basques Approve Secession Measure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The so-called Ibarretxe Plan, which seeks to create a Basque state "freely associated" with Spain, gained limited backing from Sozialista Abertzaleak (SA) in an 11th hour decision that allowed the project to be passed with 39 votes to 35.
		Framed in a reform of the region's 1979 autonomy statute, the Ibarretxe plan is modeled on the status of territories such as Quebec or Puerto Rico and seeks to obtain a system of co-sovereignty for the Basque Country.
		Framed in the guise of a reform of the statute, the Ibarretxe plan is modeled on the status of territories such as Quebec or Puerto Rico and seeks to obtain a system of co-sovereignty for the Basque Country.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues2/2005/vol09n03/BasquesApprove.shtml (1212 words)

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	Basta Ya
		Ibarretxe may think that his “Free Association” is a consequence of the freedom to choose, but –in the way it is formulated in the Plan- it is actually an imposition on two States –Spain and France- and on the European Union.
		The Ibarretxe Plan foresees a reform of the Spanish Constitution: a bilateral committee -created to this end- and a Special Chamber in the Constitutional Court -consisting of six judges appointed equally by both parties- would settle differences between the State and the CLAE.
		The Ibarretxe Plan comes into conflict with the European process of union and the Draft Constitution based, among other things, on the intangible nature of the Union founding States, including their borders and political systems, as well as on the cession of sovereignty from the States to the Union.
	www.bastaya.org /actualidad/PlanIbarretxe/FollPlaIbar_MaloIN.htm (1326 words)

	Spain's Aznar rules out Basque plan for new status
		Ibarretxe has stressed that the Basque government intends to put the plan to a referendum regardless of the outcome of its talks with the central government.
		Presenting the plan Friday, Ibarretxe told the regional parliament in Vitoria that the new statute would be based on the "respect for the right of the Basque people to decide their own future".
		If the plan were to succeed, Euskadi, the Basque name for the region in the country's north, would be freely associated with the remainder of Spain by the will of its inhabitants rather than by the current constitutional arrangement that granted the region its autonomy, under the so-called 1979 Statute of Guernica.
	quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/cg/Qspain-basques.R19a_DSU.html (551 words)

	Basque Nationalists Win Key Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If Ibarretxe wins the election and the Spanish government refuses to negotiate on his plan — which the Spanish parliament has rejected — he says he will call a regional referendum, although only Madrid is allowed to hold referendums.
		Ibarretxe says a key condition for a referendum is a halt to violence by ETA.
		Ibarretxe's plan, narrowly passed by Basque lawmakers late last year, was quickly rejected by the Spanish parliament in Madrid.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/04/17/international/i130702D97.DTL&type=printable (510 words)

	Guardian \| Basque plan is treason, say critics
		The so-called "Ibarretxe plan" was denounced as "treason" by the deputy prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, the man chosen to lead prime minister José María Aznar's conservative People's party at next year's general election.
		El Mundo said in an editorial: "The approval by the Basque government of the Ibarretxe plan is equivalent to the unilateral declarations of Slovenia and Croatia which ended with the disintegration of Yugoslavia." The plan was approved by Mr Ibarretxe's cabinet of Basque nationalists on Saturday.
		Mr Ibarretxe claimed the plan was simply an attempt to reform the 1979 statute defining the powers of the Basque country's semi-autonomous government.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4783056-103681,00.html (538 words)

	Spanish election "kills Basque plan"
		The Ibarretxe plan is now part of the past," Socialist spokesman Jose Blanco told a news conference after a meeting of the party’s national executive on Monday.
		Ibarretxe called the vote a month early after the Spanish parliament rejected his proposal for "free association" that would grant the Basque country more control over taxation, the courts and its foreign relations.
		Ibarretxe’s Basque nationalists won 29 seats in the 75-member parliament, four less than in the 2001 elections, while the Socialists won 18 seats, a gain of five.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2005/04/19/world/spanishelection34killsbasqueplan34.html?page=3 (713 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Spanish lawmakers reject Basque plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Spain's parliament has rejected a plan by the moderate leader of the Basque country for greater autonomy for the region.
		Ibarretxe had urged lawmakers in the national parliament not to spurn a "historic opportunity" to resolve relations between Madrid and the Basque country, poisoned for four decades by separatist violence fomented by armed group ETA, which is blamed for more than 800 deaths.
		Before Madrid's "no" vote, Ibarretxe said in reply to speeches by mainstream party leaders that he would press ahead with plans for a referendum in the Basque country on his autonomy scheme, regardless of whether parliament in Madrid rejected it.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/51D0C520-2262-4872-932F-2045490E90FE.htm (427 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Spanish PM to reject Basque 'sovereignty' plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ibarretxe has defended the plan, saying it did not propose outright independence from Spain.
		Ibarretxe has said the plan envisions only “a Basque nationality compatible with the Spanish one” and “a state of free association” with Spain.
		Ibarretxe presented his proposal to the Basque parliament as a means to end ETA's campaign of bombings and shootings that has killed about 850 people since 1968.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=10485 (301 words)

	NEWS - Comcast.net
		Ibarretxe hopes a strong victory by his party will put pressure on the government in Madrid to negotiate on his plan for broader autonomy bordering on independence from Spain.
		The plan, narrowly passed by Basque lawmakers last year, was quickly rejected by the Spanish parliament in Madrid.
		Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero maintains that Ibarretxe's plan "has no future." He proposes granting the Basques some new powers, but says this would have to be achieved through a broad consensus in the region.
	www.comcast.net /news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2005/04/17/109413.html (466 words)

	Basta Ya
		In September 2002, Juan José Ibarretxe, the lehendakari (premier) of the Basque Government from the PNV (Basque Nationalist Party), solemnly announced in the Basque Parliament that the following year he intended to present a plan to establish a new political relationship with Spain.
		Therefore, the Ibarretxe Plan intends to impose the nationalist program as a fait accompli, presenting as an invitation to “dialogue” and “negotiation” a proposal that, due to its unilateral nature, no State could accept without admitting a breakdown of its Constitution.
		Ibarretxe is not honest enough to call a spade a spade: the political formula he proposes –the Euskadi Free Associated Community– is a surreptitious declaration of independence, with all the advantages of sovereignty and none of its inconveniences.
	www.bastaya.org /actualidad/PlanIbarretxe/FollPlaIbarIN.htm (357 words)

	Deja Vu in Spain: Basques v. Fascists
		Delivering a copy of the controversial plan to Spain's parliament, the speaker of the Basque regional assembly urged national parties not to reject out of hand the proposal for a "status of free association" with Spain.
		Facing near-certain defeat in the Madrid parliament, Basque leader Juan Jose Ibarretxe vowed to push ahead with a referendum in the restive Basque region on his plan, which he says could end decades of violence by the separatist guerrilla group ETA.
		Ibarretxe, a moderate nationalist, presented his proposal as a means to end ETA's campaign of bombings and shootings that has killed about 850 people since 1968.
	www.ww4report.com /node/138/print (782 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Poll: Basque autonomy gains ground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Juan Jose Ibarretxe, whose push to gain virtual independence from Madrid is causing problems for Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, would win a referendum on his plan in the Basque Country, the poll also showed.
		Ibarretxe champions the plan as a solution to decades of separatist violence in the Basque Country, but Zapatero denounces it as a breach of Spain's 1978 Constitution.
		Ibarretxe's challenge has caused political heartache for Zapatero, whose determination to maintain dialogue with the Basque premier has left him vulnerable to PP leaders who accuse him of being soft on separatists.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/123BB1C6-F423-4E5A-942A-30DFEB3F8B26.htm (438 words)

	Spain's Parliament rejects plan to grant increased Basque independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The plan called for a relationship of "associated free state" with Spain, allowing the prosperous, three-province region below the Pyrenees mountains and southwest France to have its own court system and send delegates to international bodies such as the European Union.
		Ibarretxe said he also is committed to hold a Basque referendum -- opposed by the national government -- seeking a new relationship with Spain.
		Ibarretxe's plan was approved by a slim majority of his regional legislature with crucial help from lawmakers close to Batasuna, the banned party seen as ETA's political wing.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/02/01/international1827EST0743.DTL&type=printable (367 words)

	Autonomy hopes hit as hardliners deny moderate Basques a majority \| The Agonist
		Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is due to demand that Basque Premier Juan José Ibarretxe withdraw his controversial home-rule plan and accept a negotiated and more moderate reform of Basque autonomy in the wake of regional elections Sunday, which left Ibarretxe's nationalist coalition requiring outside support to form a government.
		Ibarretxe said Sunday that he will immediately begin talks with other Basque parties with a view to gaining sufficient support to allow his Basque Nationalist Party-Eusko Alkartasuna (PNV-EA) coalition to stay in power after it won 29 seats in the 75-seat regional Parliament - four less than in 2001.
		If Ibarretxe clings on to the project he would be forced to garner support at the other end of the political spectrum.
	www.agonist.org:81 /story/2005/4/17/1998/68398 (1182 words)

	Spain: Zapatero tries to control the regions
		Ibarretxe accused Batasuna, along with the PP and the Basque regional Socialist Party (PSE), of being “afraid” of a referendum.
		Ibarretxe’s plan, he said, was known to “impress many members of the Basque nationalist left”, but ETA would not allow them to vote in favour of it.
		He was expelled for his opposition to the Ibarretxe plan and the growing separatist sentiment within the party.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/sep2004/spai-s13.shtml (1754 words)

	News from Spain: Basque nationalism
		This is the second time Zapatero receives Ibarretxe in his official residence since he became president, although this meeting is expected to be more tense than the first.
		Just before the New Year the Basque regional parliament narrowly voted in favour of the "Ibarretxe Plan" which was designed by the regional president during the last Popular Party government to upgrade existing autonomy in the Basque region and eventually achieve "free association" status.
		Ibarretxe on the other hand has warned that he will not let the Spanish parliament override the will of the Basque people if they back his plan in a referendum.
	www.euroresidentes.com /Blogs/2005/01/basque-nationalism.htm (454 words)

	Basques push for autonomy \| csmonitor.com
		Ibarretxe, who wrote the plan, has called it an "opportunity" to forge better ties in what has been a difficult relationship between Basques and Spaniards.
		Yet many here say the plan threatens to destroy the country's constitution and would rupture boundaries that have stood since Ferdinand married Isabella in the 15th century.
		The Ibarretxe Plan culminates these aspirations, calling for a local referendum on whether to create an independent Basque state.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0120/p07s01-woeu.htm (722 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Collision Course -- January 24, 2005 \| Vol. 165 No. 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Under the plan, the wealthy northeastern region and its 2 million inhabitants would have an essentially separate judicial system, a separate representative to the European Union, and "a singular regime of political relations" with Madrid — more like those of a foreign country than a constituent part.
		The plan is close enough to outright secession to conjure up visions of Spain's dissolution, and sparked talk of a constitutional crisis.
		Ibarretxe vows to put the question to the Basque people in a referendum, though only once the separatist terrorist group ETA declares a cease-fire.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,1018043,00.html (468 words)

	The World Today - Basques vote against pro-secession candidate
		Ibarretxe is likely to keep that position, despite losing four seats to hold just 29 in the Parliament of 75.
		Under the Ibarretxe plan Basques would have gained their own citizenship, immigration policies, international sports teams and independent judiciary, leaving only currency and defence to Spain.
		That was what prompted Senor Ibarretxe to call this weekend's elections — a public test of his plan, and it's failed.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2005/s1347612.htm (904 words)

	costadelsol.st - News - Costa del Sol
		This vote in the Basque parliament's institutional commission is the first important step for the Ibarretxe plan.
		The autonomy plan calls for a separate judiciary, police force, financial system and a distinct citizenship for those with Basque ancestry.
		The second step for the plan is expected to be a vote in the Basque regional parliament on 30 December.
	www.costadelsol.st /news/news_pres.php3?nr=800040693&type=0 (206 words)

	Bahrain Tribune Daily Newspaper, Bahrain
		Under the ‘Ibarretxe Plan,’ brainchild of regional government chief Juan Jose Ibarretxe, the northern region would become a “territory freely associated with Spain” rather than simply an autonomous region.
		Three radicals helped to swing the vote for Ibarretxe’s ruling coalition, which is led by his own moderate Nationalist Basque Party (PNV) but which is two seats short of a majority in the 75-seat chamber.
		Opening the debate, Ibarretxe said earlier that “all the Basques, all those who live and work here, are going to decide on their future.
	www.bahraintribune.com /ArticleDetail.asp?CategoryId=3&ArticleId=56069 (495 words)

	Basque plan raises fear of break-up of Spain - World - www.theage.com.au
		The plan still has to be passed by the Basque Parliament on December 30.
		The central pillar of the proposal, known as the Ibarretxe Plan after Basque Premier Juan Jose Ibarretxe, is a Basque Community "freely associated" with Spain on the basis of "shared sovereignty".
		Jurists on both sides of the debate acknowledge that the Ibarretxe Plan almost certainly contravenes the constitution, whose founding premise is "the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation".
	www.theage.com.au /news/World/Basque-plan-raises-fear-of-breakup-of-Spain/2004/12/21/1103391765407.html (693 words)

	Ibarretxe Plan for Basque country seems to be dying. at RunningWithBulls.com - The curse of Sanfermin
		Ibarretxe Plan for Basque country seems to be dying.
		This was due to his plan being passed, by a narrow majority, in the Basque parliment (in the end coming down to the Batasuna party, which Ibarretxe had said earlier he would not have to rely on).
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	www.runningwithbulls.com /blog/?p=54 (552 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Europe
		Ibarretxe proposed giving the regional government greater control over police, the justice system and regulation of financial, telecommunications and energy markets.
		Ibarretxe's proposal, which was approved by the regional parliament last year, then rejected by the national parliament on Feb.
		Ibarretxe's chances of securing a parliamentary majority deteriorated when the national government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero allowed a rival party, the Communist Party of the Basque Lands, to run.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aVt5yMCkd8_I (643 words)

	buber.net Forum :: View topic - Catalan plan
		I'm not sure if the Catalan plan goes quite as far, although IIRC they are proposing to set up a significantly independent tax gathering system and their own local distinct legal system (I'm unclear on how this is different from the current situation, since presumably still the court of ultimate appeal will be Spanish).
		The Ibarretxe Pland was hardly mentioned by the PNV during the autonomous elections this year, although the PNV president, Imaz, started speaking about co-sovereignty this summer.
		Zapatero's Socialist government say they plan to open up talks with ETA, the guerrilla independence movement whose efforts to create a Basque nation in the north of Spain and the south of France have resulted in thousands of deaths over the past four decades.
	www.buber.net /Forum/viewtopic.php?p=1302 (983 words)

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