Contemporary Memory Politics in Catalonia: Europeanizing and Mobilizing the History of the Spanish Civil War

Spain

“…Being a parliamentary monarchy, Spain evolved slowly until it joined the European Economic Community in 1986, which was an important step forward. Thereafter, many Spanish companies were privatized and they began internationalization processes-which are usually costly (Richter 2014;Richter et al 2016;Castillo-Apraiz et al 2019, 2020Arzubiaga et al 2020)-across the European boarders and to Latin America (Galan and Gonzalez-Benito 2006).Nowadays, Spain is a developed country (Vives 2015; Šćepanović 2019). Spanish small and medium-sized firms' productivity is very close to the average of the EU-28 (Instituto Nacional de Estadística 2016).…”

“…More recently, concerns such as quality of life in the workplace or work-life balance have become more important (Meil et al 2018). The Spanish political situation deserves special attention too; It has been quite unstable mainly due to secessionist tensions headed by The Basque Country, and lately by Catalonia too, which translates into an increase in the political instability (Messenger 2017). Within this context, the political situation is having a negative influence on the economy through variables such as tourism (Perles-Ribes et al 2019).…”