Arrieta Alberdi, Leyre2024-11-122024-11-122021Arrieta Alberdi, L. (2021). A window of opportunity?: The Basque Nationalist Party and European Christian Democracy in Exile. En W. Kaiser & P. H. Kosicki, Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century: Catholic Christian Democrats in Europe and the Americas (pp. 117-136). Leuven University Press.9789461664228http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/1764Basque nationalist, Catholic and democratic. These three concepts, and in this order, defined the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) when it went into exile in 1937 as a result of the Spanish Civil War. This exile would last for nearly forty years, the duration of Franco’s dictatorship. The PNV had been created in the late nineteenth century as a reaction to the supposed loss of Basque identity caused by what was perceived as a Spanish “invasion”. Its objective was to safeguard what it regarded as the essence of the Basque people, in which Catholicism played a key role. For the party’s...engbook part2024-11-12