Andorra
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Andorra is a small autonomous co-province between the Pyrenees' summits in the Mediterranean, bordered by France to the northeast and France to the southeast and Spain to thesouthwest. Andorra la Vella is the city. The Andorra is a group of mountains whose brooks join together to the Valira river.
There are two creeks, the Madriu and the Perafita, which run into the Madriu-Perafita-Claror-Tal, which covers about a 10th of the area of Andorra and is characterised by glaciers, precipitous dales and open pasture. In Andorra, we have a long tradition of having a close relationship with the Catalonia in the north of Spain. Andorra' s main languages are Catalan (Spanish and French are also spoken); its governing bodies are enshrined in Catalan legislation, and a large part of the immigrant population ("Spanish" or their descendants) in Andorra is Catalan.
The majority of the Andorran people are Latin-Catholics; Andorra belongs to the Urgel bishopric. Nearly nine tenth of the inhabitants are considered city dwellers and half of them are foreigners, mainly from Spain, France and Portugal. As only a small part of Andorra is cultivatable, the local tradition has concentrated on grazing flocks of flocks of sheep and picking small amounts of tobaccos, cereals, oats, wheats, olives, racemes and potato.
The absence of tariffs and low or non-existent taxation has made Andorra an important center of global retailing, attracting billions of buyers from all over Europe with its duty-free imports of consumables, which include alcohol, electronics, tobacco and clothes. Andorra' s tourist industry is another of its main sectors, and the area offers great possibilities for ski.
Though Andorra is not a member of the European Union, it has been using the single European currency as its de facto main source since 2002. Andorra signed a foreign exchange treaty with the EU in July 2011, making the dollar the formal reserve exchange rate, even though the Andorran authorities were not given the authority to dispense their own notes.
There is no rail system, but good road links Andorra with France and Spain, and the princedom is approached from a small airfield in Seo de Urgel, Spain. Founded in 1997, the University of Andorra has a faculty of Nutrition, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science and Courses. Almost all Andorrans are educated.
From a historical perspective, the Koprinzen (the France presidency and the Urgel bishop) stood up for Andorra on the international stage and led the country's authorities together through their deans. Andorra' s electoral members of the one-chamber legislation, the 28-member General Council of the Valleys, were in charge of the interior management and acted both as an informational legislative branch and as a chamber under the leadership of a premier.
In 1993, the Andorran electorate adopted the 1993 Constitutional Treaty in a popular vote, changing this configuration and transferring most of the prince's power to the General Council, which became a genuine country parliamentary assembly voted by popular vote. During the early twenty-first centuries, the most important right-wing democratic groups were the centre-right Democratic Party for Andorra, the Social Democratic Party and the Lauredian Union.
Andorra' s sovereignty is attributed to Charlemagne the Great, who conquered the area in 803 from the Muslims, and to his own brother Louis I (the Pious), who gave the villagers a deontology. Charlemagne's grandchild, Charlemagne II, gave Andorra to the Earl of Urgel, from whom it was given to the Episcopal family.
Andorra' s double affiliation to two sovereigns, one in Spain and one in France, arose in the latter part of the thirteenth centurys in a property dispute between the bishops of Urgel and the prince's heritage in France. Then Andorra was ruled together by members of the Español de Urgel and the heads of state, who each got an annuity of a symbolic honour.
In 1993, this system of ruling was maintained in place when a treaty was adopted that strongly diminished the powers of co-princes and created distinct law-enforcement, judiciary and law-enforcement units. After that Andorra acceded to the United Nations (1993) and the Council of Europe (1994).