News: EITB Maratoia, Talgo returns to the Basque Country and economic forecast for 2026
A summary, in two words, of what will be news in the Present today.
Today, 17 December 2025, the main headlines in the media are as follows:
- EiTB Maratoia: 2025 EITB Maratoia will live today the big day The uninterrupted 14-hour dance marathon En four capitals. Urtero will be a special day, and the one gathered there will be dedicated toresearch on healthy aging.
- Talgo: President Pradales will visit the facilities of the Talgo following the decision of the new Board of Directors to return theregistered office and prosecutorof the railway manufacturer Gasteiz. The new board of directors includes two new councillors representing the Basque Consortium of Sidenor, José Antonio Jainaga and Maite Echarri.
- economic forecasts for the ACV: Confebask and Laboral Kutxa will present their economic forecasts for 2026.
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Eider Gotxi (Guggenheim Urdaibai Stop): "Thanks to the work of the citizens, the Guggenheim Urdaibai project has been abandoned."
One day after the definitive suspension of the Guggenheim Urdaibai project, the spokesman for the Guggenheim Urdaibai Stop platform, Eider Gotxi, has stressed that the people have been victorious in the face of the "rigid and imposing" attitude of the institutions. He has called on the public to participate in the celebration of the victory at the Jaigiro on February 7 in Gernika.
First withholding at the AP-8 in Irun, and the border is closed again for trucks in Biriatou
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The citizen platforms of Gernika, Bermeo and Mundaka have criticized the strategic plan for Busturialdea-Urdaibai
They disagree with the investment plan that the Basque Government and the Provincial Council of Bizkaia have drawn up for the region. They say that the region is getting older because young people are going abroad because they have no chance of working and living there, so they say that employment and housing plans are needed first.
The Guggenheim Museum in Urdaibai has been rejected 17 years after the project was announced
After two years of study and eleven discussions, the Board has decided to reject the Guggenheim project in Urdaibai. Just a month ago, the General Representative of Bizkaia, Elixabete Etxanobe, explained that it would take a long time to clean up the land for the construction of the museum, as well as to clarify in the courts the complaints against the project.