Autonomous Community of the Basque Country

In the last year, monthly rent for rental housing has increased throughout Hego Euskal Herria, with Navarra (5.6%) being the largest increase, followed by Bizkaia (4.5%), Álava (4%) and Gipuzkoa (1.9%). In the average price table, the list turns around and Gipuzkoa (16.4 euros/m2), followed by Álava (12.1 euros/m2).

In 2025, 90 people died in traffic accidents in Hego Euskal Herria, 47 of them in Navarre.

40 years ago, on 1 January 1986, Spain and Portugal joined the European Economic Community, the current European Union. What did this change mean in the Basque Country?

Firefighters intervened this morning in Algorta (Bizkaia) to quell the fire in several containers due to the use of pyrotechnic material on New Year's Eve.

The yellow ice warning is set for today in the Basque Country. In the early morning it was -4.2 ° in Gurain and -1 ° in Amorebieta. The weather stations of the Foral Community of Navarre measured -3.6 ° in Eltzaburu (Ultzama).

The president of the Basque PP, Javier de Andrés, believes that lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, has forgotten in his end-of-year speech three of the main problems of the Basques: the cost of housing, the increase in crime and the loss of purchasing power of the Basques.

The number of deaths has increased significantly in Álava (16), with seven more deaths, falling in Gipuzkoa (16) and remaining in Bizkaia (9). 

A number of trials will focus on the judicial interest throughout next year.

The Basque Government has opened a negotiating channel with the Ministry to define the vaccination strategy, including new areas with a higher livestock burden.

Ibarra was president of the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country and was appointed by the Basque Government at the end of December 2021 as chairman of the Ertzaintza control committee.

It is mainly women who are in this need, but in the last 30 years male involvement has increased by 15.8 percentage points.

From 1 January 2026, in order to be able to retire with 100% of the pension, workers who have contributed less than 38 years and three months may retire at the age of 66 and 10 months, that is, two months after 2025.

On 11 December, the Basque Parliament adopted a law containing urgent measures to mobilise land for housing promotion, speed up procedures and limit tourist flats.

For more than 20 years, Mikel Urdangarin has been offering a special performance on the last weekend of the year, with all the tickets exhausted and which has attracted the public from many corners of Euskal Herria. It has brought together new and old faces at the Kafe Antzokia in Bilbao. 

On Monday the communities hold a meeting of the Veterinary Health Alert Network, where the Government will make the request, arguing that the latest cases have been detected in four French regions close to the ACV. 

The International Federation of the Basque Ball approved the participation of the Basque Country in the official competitions a year ago. However, there is still uncertainty, since the Spanish Federation has appealed. The Court of Sports Arbitration has again postponed its decision until the end of January. 

This year President Imanol Pradales has tried to show his own identity through the cry of change, but in the Spanish State the political conflict has reached its peak in the middle of the legislature, until the power of Pedro Sánchez has been shaken. 

At the beginning of the year, the prices of certain products and services will be updated. For certain prices, such as food or housing, it is difficult to predict, but the circumstances of others are known. Here is a summary of the latter.