Overview
- Txaber Altube won the Markina-Xemein semi-final to secure a place in the Bizkaiko Bertsolari Championship final on December 20 at Bilbao’s Casilla, which will air live on ETB1, with full semi-final scores published.
- UEMA and Kutxabank, Laboral Kutxa and Bankoa ABANCA signed a four-year deal covering 59 municipalities to make Basque the default in branches and e-banking, with staff training and a joint monitoring committee.
- A large Idiazabal mobilisation opposed planned AHT drilling for the Navarra corridor link, as hydrogeologist Inma Mugerza warned that tunnelling and test bores in Aralar’s karst pose direct risks to underground water and ecosystems, with a follow-up talk set for November 28 in Ataun.
- At the Rikardo Arregi journalism awards in Andoain, Jenofa Berhokoirigoinek’s Argia report won the Journalism prize and on.eus took the Communication prize, each worth €9,000.
- New cultural releases and dates include Xabin Fernandez’s five-part audio fiction now on EITB’s GUAU platform and two Gabriel Aresti tribute concerts in Bilbao on December 4 and 10, with the Arnasetik youth contest awarding prizes on November 27 after receiving 205 entries and over 3,500 votes.