Hispanism theater in the Netherlands and the Generation of '98, as well as the Sephardic refugee writers in the Netherlands. Cees Nooteboom has written books about travel to Spain, including "Roads to Santiago". produced a Dutch translation of "Don Quixote" in 1994, and Hispanism continues to be promoted by Dutch writers such as Rik Zaal ("Alles over Spanje"), Gerrit Jan Zwier, Arjen Duinker, Jean Pierre Rawie, Els Pelgrom ("The Acorn Eaters"), Chris van der Heijden ("The Splendour of Spain from Cervantes to Velázquez"), "Albert Helman", Maarten Steenmeijer, and Jean Arnoldus Schalekamp ("This is Majorca: The Balearic Islands : Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera").
Socialist Party of Majorca representation in the Cortes Generales was obtained. In 2007, this coalition was enlarged, forming the new coalition Bloc for Majorca (Bloc). The coalition got 4 MPs (14%) in the Balearic Parliament (2 of them from the PSM). After negotiations, PSM and the other Bloc's parties decided to enter the autonomous government, with Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands (PSIB) and Majorcan Union (UM), leaving the People's Party (PP) in the opposition. In 2008, the party decided to change its allies for the general election to UM, ERC and ExM. The coalition refused to join with EUIB. However, 29% of the