Cautious welcome to end of ETA

BASQUES digesting the apparent end of separatist group ETA’s armed campaign are taking it with quiet, careful relief.

Because the decades of violence were too agonising, there was no dancing in the streets or champagne bottles being popped open.

“There seems to be a sort of restrained euphoria,” said Pedro Ontoso, deputy director of El Correo, a major Basque newspaper.