Although the government is likely to reject such an application, Batasuna could file an appeal in an attempt to demonstrate that it has broken links with ETA, including illegal financing methods.
But many Britons believe the link between graft and gain has broken down.
The changing nature of the British jobs market has broken the link between unemployment and crime, according to new research.
Readers of the Digest of United Kingdom energy statistics will find an extraordinary table in the new edition: the two-century link between growth and energy has broken.
Cookson added that while Verbruggen remains the UCI's honorary vice-president, he believes the organisation has broken the link to the man who was at its head from 1991 to 2005.
The surge in domestic gas production has broken that link and could encourage a shift away from oil and towards gas in the future, although the supply and storage of liquefied natural gas for vehicles remain fraught with problems.Several big question marks hang over these predictions.
This was probably true to some extent in 2008 and 2009, but it shows up most clearly in the fact that the Fed didn't begin "QE2" until 2010; unemployment had been very high for several years by that point, but only then did disinflation look a serious threat.But another question is whether the link between inflation and unemployment has broken down or merely changed.
"The negative savings rate, combined with growing consumer credit, has broken the link between savings and credit".
Economic growth since the 1960s has been real, but the link between growth and personal prosperity has broken down, probably since the 1990s.
"The breakdown of caste hierarchy has broken the traditional links between caste and profession, and released enormous entrepreneurial energies in the south," said Ashutosh Varshney, a professor at Brown University who has studied the role of caste in southern India's development.
