Euskaldunon Egunkaria: diario de referencia de la cultura vasca

Abstract

On 20 February 2003, Juan del Olmo, a judge in the High Court in Madrid, decreed the closure of the Euskaldunon Egunkaria newspaper on the grounds that it formed part of the "apparatus of ETA". Euskaldunon Egunkaria had been in circulation for twelve years, and was the only newspaper wholly written in Basque in the world. The authors of this work maintain that Euskaldunon Egunkaria was a standard European newspaper and an outstanding witness of and actor in Basque culture. The authors endorse this statement by providing both quantitative and qualitative data originating from three studies: an analysis of 100 news items appearing on the paper's front pages, a compilation of quality indexes, and an in- depth examination of the 3,789 issues published.