Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How are declining regions to be revitalised? This question arises wherever erstwhile bastions of heavy industry ...

Spain's dash into tourism in the 1970s and its property boom last decade largely passed by the Basque region, a cool, damp corner of the north with a reputation for separatist violence. Instead the ...

We are tramping up a zigzagged mountain trail through chestnut groves and over gurgling streams. Cowbells are clanging and I can smell juniper and wild thyme. Suddenly, Georgina raises a hand to halt ...

It’s still a nest of terrorists around here, but nobody worries about it much. These days when you hear a helicopter at night, it’s only the medevac chopper bringing some urgent case down to the main ...

Evidence increasingly shows that to improve population health and constrain the rate of growth in health care costs, it is necessary to address the underlying social determinants of health.

First, a story — a Basque story: 80 years ago this April, during the Spanish civil war, Spain’s military — along with the fascist European powers assisting it — destroyed the village of Gernika, a ...

ETA, the Basque terroristy group killed two policemen last week in a bombing in Majorca and also injured 60 people in a seperate bombing. Those of us from Irish America and Ireland can say: "There but ...

The Basque region, by contrast, can borrow two-year debt at 8.5 percent interest, compared with 18 percent for Valencia or nearly 14 percent for Catalonia. But the Basque economy is not immune to ...