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Spanish Sign Language ( Spanish: Lengua de Signos Española, LSE) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people in Spain and the people who live with them. Although there are not many reliable statistics, it is estimated that there are over 100,000 speakers, 20-30% of whom use it as a second language. From a strictly linguistic point of view ...
The retiring age for university professors in Spain is 70 while other workers is 66 (adjusting to 67). However, a university professor can work until he or she is 70, if he so wishes. Even then, they can apply for a Profesor Emérito position. It is a non-tenured position and it has a limited duration (4 additional years).
Visa requirements for Spanish citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Spain.. As of January 2024, Spanish citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 194 countries and territories, ranking the ordinary Spanish passport 1st in terms of travel freedom (tied with France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Singapore) according to the ...
The social security system (Spanish: seguridad social) in Spain is its principal system of social protection.The concept of social security first appeared in Spain in 1883 under the Committee for Social Reform, it was expanded several times during the twentieth century and finally the right to social security was enshrined in the Spanish Constitution of 1978 under Article 41 which states "that ...
The unemployment rate of Spain is the third highest among OECD countries, 15.1% of the total labor force was unemployed in the third quarter of 2018. The youth unemployment in Spain in the third quarter of 2017 was 37.44%. Spain's population has less women than men working within the working sector. Contributory benefits
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center ( Spanish: Centro Nacional de Supercomputación) is a public research center located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It hosts MareNostrum, a 13.7 Petaflops, Intel Xeon Platinum -based supercomputer, which also includes clusters of emerging technologies. In June 2017, it ranked 13th in the world.
The state pension scheme is part of the Social Security system in Spain. There are two categories of pension in Spain: contributory and non-contributory. The pensions system is financed by a payroll tax on salaries. The employee pays 4.7% of their salary while employers must pay the equivalent of 23.6% of an employee's salary into the scheme.
April 3, 2024 at 7:58 AM. BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A cruise ship reportedly carrying 1,500 passengers was stuck Wednesday in the Spanish northeastern port of Barcelona due to the visa problems of ...
The Bankinter building in Seville, architect Aníbal González (1907-1909). Bankinter, S.A. ( Spanish pronunciation: [baŋˈkinteɾ] ), is a Spanish financial services company headquartered in Madrid. It has been listed on the Bolsa de Madrid since 1972, and is part of the Ibex35 Index. It was founded in 1965 as an industrial bank through a ...
The forerunner of the United Nations was the League of Nations, an organization that was established in 1919, after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, "to promote international cooperation and achieve peace and security", and to which Spain adhered as a founding country included in Annex I of the Treaty of Versailles (1920). [1]