Each passing year, the infrastructures in Catalonia are in worse condition than the previous year because the investment from all public administrations is insufficient to compensate for the depreciation of roads or tracks over time. This is one of the conclusions of the report “The investment deficit in infrastructures in Catalonia 2009-2025” published today by the employers’ association Foment del Treball.
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The report points out that if the usual infrastructure investment made on average in the EU is to be matched, Catalonia would need to receive 58.748 billion euros in budget allocation at once to compensate for the deficit from 2009-2025.
The figure is different from the execution rate – historically low – recorded in Catalonia in recent years. Lluís Moreno, president of the COCC, denounces that the State stopped publishing the figures in 2023, resulting in an information blackout on the degree of compliance with the annual budget. “There is little culture of execution on the part of the State,” Moreno said during the presentation of the report.
The president of Foment, Josep Sánchez-Llibre, recalled that investing in infrastructures is not an expense but a key factor to gain competitiveness. The businessman lamented that last week the infrastructure consortium could not be approved in Congress and recalled that it is a similar initiative to the one proposed by Foment in the past. As a novelty, this year the employers’ association has called on Catalan political forces to reach an agreement on the need to increase investments in infrastructures.
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