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European Union boundaries mean not so much in the land of the Basques: "I can’t wait to go back to the land of the Basques" (from LA Daily News)

01/12/2015

By now, Americans are used to the United States of Europe. Crossing an international boundary in the euro zone is less of a bureaucratic occasion than driving from Arizona into California: There’s not even an agricultural inspection stand. But as my wife Phoebe and I were heading south in early October on the A63 highway from Biarritz toward the Spanish border in our rented Peugeot, I pondered an older nationalistic question. The people who live in Bayonne, France, the small Atlantic coastal city we had just been staying in, consider themselves Basque before they consider themselves French.

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