Nevertheless, since the 1990s (successful or unsuccessful) party ban proceedings have taken place in a number of CoE member states such as Latvia, Lithuania, the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, Croatia, France, Spain, Belgium, Slovenia, Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany and, most frequently, Turkey. With the exception of Turkey, however, bans on parties were related only to a few small extremist parties, mostly on the grounds of anti-democratic ideologies, promoting violence, supporting terrorist organisations, or threatening the democratic order or national unity.