" Given the situation in Spain for several years regarding terrorist attacks, these ties can be considered objectively as a threat to democracy ," the court said, also adding that these parties " contradicted the concept of a ' democratic society ' and presented a major danger to Spain's democracy ".

The early 17th century saw a febrile atmosphere in Spain, with numerous arbitrista offering various advice on how to solve Spain's various ills ; this advice could, and would, be given in person by those of the lower classes to the king on suitable occasions, provided it was presented with the aim of strengthening the crown.

A production by Spain's Centro Dramático Nacional directed by Gerardo Vera of his play " Divinas palabras " was presented in New York in 2007 as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.

Yet, Santa Cruz, the Spanish admiral, who was acclaimed for his victories against the House of Aviz and its partisans in the Azores, recognized that England presented a grave threat to Spain's empire, and he became a zealous advocate of war with the English.

The following examples of Designs for All were presented in the book Diseños para Todos / Designs for All published in 2008 by Optimastudio with the support of Spain's Ministry of Education, Social Affairs and Sports ( IMSERSO ) and CEAPAT:

King Juan Carlos I presented Naschy with Spain's Gold Medal Award for Fine Arts in 2001 in honor of his work.

Carolina Herrera is a recipient of The International Center in New York's Award of Excellence as well as Spain's Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts, which was presented to her in 2002 by King Juan Carlos I.

The winning song, Spain's " La, la, la " is sung by Massiel, after Spanish authorities refused to allow Joan Manuel Serrat to perform it in Catalan.

Francisco de Orellana, yet another lieutenant of Francisco Pizarro from the Spanish city of Trujillo, put down the native rebellion and in 1537 reestablished this city, which a century later would become one of Spain's principal ports in South America.

One of these is the famous work Saturn Devouring His Son ( known informally in some circles as Devoration or Saturn Eats His Child ), which displays a Greco-Roman mythological scene of the god Saturn consuming a child, possibly a reference to Spain's ongoing civil conflicts.

Spain's most prolific playwright, Lope de Vega, wrote possibly as many as one thousand plays over his lifetime, over four hundred of which survive to the present day.

After the Napoleonic wars ( which ended in 1815 ), almost all of Spain's and Portugal's colonies in Latin America revolted and declared independence.

Ports on each coast and a trail between them handled much of Spain's colonial trade from which the inhabitants of the port cities prospered.

Perennial weak points of Spain's economy include high inflation, a large underground economy, and an education system, beside UK and the United States, which OECD reports place among the poorest for developed countries.

Among these, according to the Financial Times, was Spain's rapidly growing trade deficit, which had reached a staggering 10 % of the country's GDP by the summer of 2008, the " loss of competitiveness against its main trading partners " and, also, as a part of the latter, an inflation rate which had been traditionally higher than the one of its European partners, back then especially affected by house price increases of 150 % from 1998 and a growing family indebtedness ( 115 %) chiefly related to the Spanish Real Estate boom and rocketing oil prices.

Furthermore, both Anne and Maria Theresa had renounced their rights to the Spanish succession upon their marriages, although in the latter case the renunciation was widely seen as invalid, since it had been predicated upon Spain's payment of the Infanta's dowry, which was never paid.

France ceded French Louisiana west of the Mississippi River to its ally Spain in compensation for Spain's loss to Britain of Florida ( which Spain had ceded to Britain in exchange for the return of Havana, Cuba ).

Aragon is home to many rivers — most notably, the river Ebro, Spain's largest river in volume, which runs west-east across the entire region through the province of Zaragoza.

# The Quadruple Alliance of 1718 was an alliance among Austria, France, the Dutch Republic and Great Britain-aimed at revising ( principally at Spain's expense ) the treaties which ended the War of the Spanish Succession.

Spain started a commemorative coin series ( UNESCO World Heritage ) in 2010, commemorating all of Spain's UNESCO World Heritage Sites, which could continue until 2050.

This victory prolonged Spain's control of the Caribbean waters, which helped secure its large Empire until the 19th century.

Goldstein later observed that he broke news of Operation TIPS on March 10 in Spain's second largest daily, El Mundo, but that he struggled until July before finding a major English language paper which would print the story.

The Argentine publishing industry, which includes Atlántida, Eudeba, and Emecé, among numerous others, ranks with Spain's and Mexico's as the most important in the Spanish-speaking world, and includes the largest bookstore chain in Latin America, El Ateneo.

Unlike France in which regional languages face incredible endangerment and possible extinction, Spain's long-established approach to making regional bilingual education mandatory has served often as a model for both the survival and thriving state of the languages indigenous to the country.

The monastery, which had already suffered damage during the First Carlist War, was closed down due to the Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizábal in 1835 during Isabella II of Spain's rule.

He quickly became interested in the world of fashion design and began sketching for leading Spanish fashion houses, which soon led to an apprenticeship with Spain's most renowned couturier, Cristóbal Balenciaga.

The Spanish empire, which included Spain, the Netherlands, Naples, Milan and Spain's possessions in the Americas, went to his son, Philip.

In 1866 Ostend was the venue for a crucial meeting of exile Spanish Liberals and Republicans which laid the framework for a major uprising in their country, culminating in Spain's Glorious Revolution two years later.

He also founded the newspaper La Madre de Familia, in which he promised " to defend women from the tyranny of men " and La Fraternidad, Spain's first communist newspaper.

The territorial dispute's origins lay in the 18th-century treaties in which Great Britain acceded to Spain's assertion of sovereignty while British settlers continued to occupy the sparsely settled and ill-defined area.

The tall column in the center of the main square dates from colonial times ; it held a statue of a Spain's viceroy, which was toppled when the country gained independence ; the current sculpture on its summit commemorates Mexican independence.

Juan Carlos followed a foreign policy during the first decade of his kingship coined Reencounter and Reconciliation, which greatly improved Spain's standing on the world stage.

Cuba and Puerto Rico, reached tremendous levels of development and wealth, to the point that Spain's First Train was between Havana and Camaguey, and the world's first telegraph was in Puerto Rico, as Samuel Morse lived there with his daughter, married to a Puerto Rican businessman.

During the early 20th century, Alicante was a minor capital that enjoyed the benefit of Spain's neutrality during World War I, and that provided new opportunities for the local industry and agriculture.

Colonial Cuba was a frequent target of buccaneers, pirates and French corsairs seeking Spain's New World riches.

The main reason for the lack of support for these efforts was that the vast majority of Creoles, especially the plantation owners, rejected any kind of separatism, considering Spain's power essential to the maintenance of slavery.

Cartier was followed by nobleman Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts who was accompanied by explorer / cartographer Samuel de Champlain in a 1604 expedition where they established the second permanent European settlement in North America, following Spain's settlement at St. Augustine.

Between 1544 and 1563, Ecuador was an integral Spain's colonies in the New World under the Viceroyalty of Peru, having no administrative status independent of Lima.

In the period following Spain's grant of local autonomy to Equatorial Guinea in 1963, there was a great deal of political party activity.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

Preliminary work was begun in 2004 on a 10-year project to construct a new hotel and marina project on the Eastside of the Rock, overlooking Spain's Costa del Sol.

It was designed by Secundino Zuano, one of Spain's leading architects of the 20th century and first opened in 1963.

The loose council of nobles that advised Spain's Visigothic kings and legitimized their rule was responsible for raising the army, and only upon its consent was the king able to summon soldiers.

In his reign ( 1598 – 1621 ) a ten year truce with the Dutch was overshadowed in 1618 by Spain's involvement in the European-wide Thirty Years ' War.

Her principal aim was to have Spain's lost territories in Italy restored.

Consequently, although Spain itself accepted the rejection of the Constitution, the rejection of the Constitution was not as calmly accepted in Spain's empire in the New World.

This was capitalized upon by King Hassan II of Morocco, who ordered the ' Green March ' into Western Sahara, Spain's last colonial possession.

This " wall system " was first introduced on a large scale in Spain's El Escorial.

Philip II of Spain's ( 1556 – 1598 ) high-handed interference at the previous conclave was not forgotten: he had barred all but seven cardinals.

Much of Spain's economy was put under worker control ; in anarchist strongholds like Catalonia, the figure was as high as 75 %.

Between 2008 and 2012 this process was rapidly reversed, characterized by the fact that almost a quarter of Spain's workforce is currently unemployed.

The estimation of the IMF was proven to be somewhat too pessimistic, as Spain's GDP sank less than that of most advanced economies in 2009 and by the first quarter of 2010 had already emerged from the recession.