Mariano Rajoy's conservative People's party government, elected in 2011 after the socialists collapsed in the recession, has taken an aggressive stance on all sorts of policies – including the deficit, social reform and, in recent weeks, the ancient feud with Britain over Gibraltar (which takes its name – Tariq's Mountain – from an 8th century Arab conqueror).
Portugal's socialist government collapsed last week.
After the brief euphoria of unification in 1990, the West's subsidised industry and the East's socialist enterprise collapsed alongside each other.
As Soviet support of Ethiopia's socialist government collapsed in the late 1980s, the EPLF formed an alliance with guerrilla groups in Tigray province and other parts of Ethiopia, and, when these groups overthrew the central government and captured the Ethiopian capital in May 1991, the EPLF formed a separate provisional government for Eritrea.
The pair plan to travel around the heavily-industrialised areas left after the Communist period, documenting the lives of the people that ex-Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu turned from farmers into miners, then left bankrupt after his misguided, Socialist dream collapsed in on itself. .
One politician praised him as "a Prussian from southern Europe".Mariano Rajoy, Spain's prime minister, was buoyed up by a regional election in Galicia, where his ruling People's Party extended its majority as the Socialists' vote collapsed.
We have to stick to the facts and, simply put, the socialist camp has collapsed".
AN OVERWHELMING victory for the right; the humbling of the Socialists; and the collapse of the extremists, of both right and left.
But I think in some ways easier than before [because many] fake socialist regimes have collapsed".
