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Until 1945, the exiled Republicans had high hopes that at the end of World War II in Europe, Franco's regime would be removed from power by the victorious Allies and that they would be able to return to Spain. When these hopes were disappointed, the government-in-exile faded away to a purely symbolic role. The government moved back to Paris in ...
A province in Spain [note 1] is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities. [1] [2] [3] The current provinces of Spain correspond by and large to the provinces created under the purview of the 1833 territorial re-organization of Spain, with a similar predecessor from 1822 (during the Trienio Liberal) and an earlier precedent in the 1810 Napoleonic division of Spain into ...
Spain is not a traditionally Orthodox country. Iberian Christians remained under Rome's sphere of influence in Western Christianity following the Great Schism of 1054.. The number of Orthodox adherents in the country began to increase in the early 1990s, when Spain experienced an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe.
Though the government came short of this success, in 2006 the government was able to identify nine employment-generating factors, namely cyber services, aviation, agribusiness, health services, mining, creative industries, hotels and restaurants, medical tourism and overseas employment. The BPO sector only accounted for 0.075% of the GDP in ...
Most sorts of employment income earned are subject to social security contributions, by both the employee and the employer. The standard rate for the employee is 6.35%. The employer pays what corresponds to 29.90% of the employee's salary. The current maximum monthly Social Security base is EUR3,596.98 (2015).
On 1 December 1998, Spain changed to a new telephone numbering plan. [8] Under the closed numbering plan with the trunk prefix '9' being incorporated into the subscriber's number, so that a nine-digit number was used for all calls, e.g.: [9] 9xx xxx xxx (within Spain) +34 9xx xxx xxx (outside Spain)
BSC was formed from the assets of former private companies which had been nationalised, largely under the Labour government of Harold Wilson, on 28 July 1967. [2] Wilson's was the second attempt at nationalisation; the post-war government of Clement Attlee had created the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain in 1951 taking public ownership of 80 companies but this had been largely ...
The first law recognising cohabiting same-sex couples was passed in 1994 for the purpose of providing limited legal rights with regard to renting. [18] During the 1990s and early 2000s, several city councils and autonomous communities opened registries for de facto unions (Spanish: unión de hecho, pareja de hecho or pareja estable) [a] that allow benefits for unmarried couples of any sex ...