A tribute to the businessmen who stood up to ETA: "Without you, we wouldn't be where we are today."

The Basque business fabric haspaid tribute to the entrepreneurs who decided to continue their activities in the Basque Country despite ETA terrorism.

Since 2010, the Dayof Remembrance of the Basque Country has been celebrated every year on 10 November, the only date of the calendar on which ETA did not commit a deadly attack. This year, the day before, the Delegation of the Spanish Government in the Basque Country, Confebask and the Memorial Centre for Victims have paid tribute and thanked the Basque businessmen who maintained and maintained their activity in the face of the terrorist threat.

Confebask's president, Tamara Yagüe, has said that the employers organized the tribute in 2017 to the businessmen who were victims of ETA. "Too often, fear was accompanied by loneliness. They needed a sweet word and that didn't always come."

Marisol Garmendia ,representative of Spain Gobernua, has highlighted the role of entrepreneurs throughout the ETA era. "Without you, without the Basque entrepreneurs who maintained their activity, we would not be where we are today," she said, adding that Basque society still has "outstanding accounts with those who suffered fear, harassment and fear."

Fernando Reinares, the new director of the Memorial Centre for Victimsof Terrorism , stressed that "the values embodied by all these activists were precisely the values that terrorists hated."

The cost of terrorism exceeds EUR 25 billion

They have said that the cost of terrorism exceeded EUR 25 billion in 2021, but 'the biggest impact was the structural damage to the foundations of the Basque economy'.

Angel Berazadi , manager of Sigma, was murdered by ETA in 1976. Since Orud, 48 businessmen and directors murdered byETA, 86 hostages and nearly 15,000 people who were extorted have been remembered  Luis Ramón Arrieta, researcher at the University of Deusto and expert in the impact of terrorism on the Basque economy expert.

After leaving ETA in 2011, "some expected the dividend of peace, but peace takes away the brake, does not build the economic engine, "said Arrieta, who warned that" in the dark years the Economic Concert acted as a strong but not inexhaustible safeguard. "