future cooperation would be addressed if Basque stays within Spain. Regarding to the NGOs, no data was found about their activities or participation during the last ten years. Apart from all, the last ten years, the Basque government was active only in the years, before the parliament elections were hold in 2005, 2009 and 2012, thus keeping Basque feeling of belonging to national sentiment from 39% to 44%. Also, the reason, why the cultural diplomatic events did not manage to successfully and fluently influence EU’s Basque opinion on independence from 2004 to 2008, was because of ETA and its terrorism and propaganda. It can be clearly seen, that from 2010, when ETA finally gave up its activities and the government of Basques still were passive, for example, by not submitting any proposals to the Spanish government on holding the new referendum or on upgrading the Statues, the support on independent Basque country begun to drop from 61% to 56. In Basque case it is possible to conclude, that the cultural diplomacy is fluently working EU’s in case if Basque government and ETA is passive. It is safe to admit, that the cultural EU’s diplomacy had the influence in case of Basque ethnic conflict in last six years. illustrates previously analyzed data and the information about Catalan identities Table 8 (their opinion on independence, feeling of belonging to national sentiment), the amount of the cultural diplomatic events held between the EU and Basque, the activity of the government of Basque, the Spanish government and the NGOs. In case of Catalan ethnic conflict it is possible to observe, that the cultural diplomacy has no influence on the EU’s Catalan identities. Table 8 Catalans Catalan feeling of favoring belonging to the amount of the the independent national EU's cultural government of the Spanish YEAR country sentiment diplomatic events Catalonia government NGOs 2004 54% No data 4 active active passive 2006 52% No data 4 active active passive 2008 54% No data 5 active passive passive 2010 57% 47% 5 active passive passive 2012 67% 58% 6 active passive passive 2014 80% 62% 13 active passive active Source: Table made by author, according to the previous analysis and data.
future cooperation would be addressed if Basque stays within Spain. Regarding to the NGOs, no data was found about their activities or participation during the last ten years. Apart from all, the last ten years, the Basque government was active only in the years, before the parliament elections were hold in 2005, 2009 and 2012, thus keeping Basque feeling of belonging to national sentiment from 39% to 44%. Also, the reason, why the EU’s cultural diplomatic events did not manage to successfully and fluently influence Basque opinion on independence from 2004 to 2008, was because of ETA and its terrorism and propaganda. It can be clearly seen, that from 2010, when ETA finally gave up its activities and the government of Basques still were passive, for example, by not submitting any proposals to the Spanish government on holding the new referendum or on upgrading the Statues, the support on independent Basque country begun to drop from 61% to 56. In Basque case it is possible to conclude, that the EU’s cultural diplomacy is fluently working in case if Basque government and ETA is passive. It is safe to admit, that the EU’s cultural diplomacy had the influence in case of Basque ethnic conflict in last six years. Table 8 illustrates previously analyzed data and the information about Catalan identities (their opinion on independence, feeling of belonging to national sentiment), the amount of the cultural diplomatic events held between the EU and Basque, the activity of the government of Basque, the Spanish government and the NGOs. In case of Catalan ethnic conflict it is possible to observe, that the EU’s cultural diplomacy has no influence on the Catalan identities. YEAR Catalans favoring independent country Catalan feeling of belonging to national sentiment the amount of the EU's cultural diplomatic events the government of Catalonia the Spanish government NGOs 2004 54% No data 4 active active passive 2006 52% No data 4 active active passive 2008 54% No data 5 active passive passive 2010 57% 47% 5 active passive passive 2012 67% 58% 6 active passive passive 2014 80% 62% 13 active passive active Table 8 Source: Table made by author, according to the previous analysis and data.
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