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The regional and municipal elections held in Spain on May 24, 2015, confirmed the trend from recent years, namely the decline in the popularity of the two leading parties: the People's Party (PP) and the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE). The results from public opinion polls testify ...
Spain’s participation in the Second World War is not all that easy to assess. Officially, Spain was not among the combatants, this often being forgotten when the country is assigned the status of an ally of Germany. Indeed, the Spanish people, under ...
The modern world is characterized by change and development, which leads to a growth in global energy consumption, primarily on the part of developed countries and developing countries with rapidly growing economies. The economic crisis of 2008–2009 brought chaos to the global energy market, which resulted in an even more intense struggle for electrical power supply and energy resources between countries. Global competition, national and international interests, the North–South divide...
... positive decision of a nationwide referendum. The government of the centre-right conservative People’s Party has been inflexible on the issue, demanding that the Constitution be respected and refusing to discuss any amendments. On September 29, 2014, Spain’s Constitutional Court provisionally suspended the referendum for the next five months at the request of the central government. Therefore, unlike the British Government, which allowed Scotland an independence vote and promised them everything ...
... loans (Ireland had that honor), Portugal has attracted significant public attention. After a painstaking implementation of international creditors’ guidelines, Lisbon has progressed along the path of reform and returned to the world credit market. Spain and Greece have also been rather successful in bridling the negative economic trends to prove that PIGS countries [1] offer a good example of the focused execution of complicated homework. PIGS: P for Portugal Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain ...
The parties supporting Catalonian independence from the rest of Spain dominate that autonomous community. A referendum on self-determination is scheduled for November 9, 2014. However, according to the Constitution, no entity can hold a referendum without the consent of Spanish authorities or without a permit for ...
... the historical traits of authoritarian and bureaucratic governance. In this context, the Spanish example – which saw confrontation between new social movements and mainstream parties – is remarkably striking. The Caudillistic Parties of Spain In Spain, political parties are of paramount significance, as they control virtually the entire political space, with the election-winner coming to the helm and essentially merging with the state structures. They hold all key state institutions ...
Spain: Cultural Policy in Action Being one of the most widely used European languages in the world, Spanish began the process of territorial expansion in 1492 after the discovery and the subsequent conquest of Central and South America. With regard ...
... quite low, and Britain today does not have a single carrier of deck-based aircraft. The UK may return the new ships in full readiness in 6-8 years at the earliest, while France – by the second half of the 2020s. Second, the rear echelon powers (Spain, Italy) are actually catching up, and in some respects even surpassing the leaders, namely, in the number of units of this class, especially with regards to strike aircraft. However, this is more due to the natural course of events than to their ...
Separatists in Europe: Strangers among Friends Separatism is most apparent in certain regions of such European Union members as Great Britain (Scotland, Northern Ireland), Spain (Catalonia, Basque Provinces), Belgium (Flanders), Italy (northern provinces), and France (Corsica). Separatist activity manifests not only within the political sphere, but sometimes (in Northern Ireland, Basque Country and Corsica) it also translates ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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