The accumulated deficit in infrastructure investment in Catalonia reaches the figure of 49,543 million euros between 2009 and 2025. This amount represents an increase of 7.3% compared to the previous year, according to data presented by Foment del Treball.
The investment gap amounts to 58,748 million if calculated in constant euros. The cost of carrying out the pending works now is 9,000 million higher than it would have been to carry them out at their planned time.
State budget execution falls to 59.5%
The calculation starts from the European reference that sets the ideal investment at 2.2% of Catalan GDP. The real average recorded from 2009 to date has barely reached 1% of the community's gross domestic product.
"It is an alarming, deeply outrageous, and absolutely intolerable situation" - Josep Sánchez Llibre, president of Foment del Treball
The general administration of the State showed a budget execution rate of 59.5%. This percentage leaves a balance of unexecuted investment of 11,059 million euros in the analyzed period.
The Government of Catalonia achieved an execution of 88.7% during the same period. Even so, it accumulated 3,147 million euros in items that did not materialize into physical works.
The railroad drags half of the investment
Adif executed only 48.6% of what was budgeted for Catalonia between 2010 and 2023 in the railway sector. The group formed by Adif and Renfe registers an accumulated execution rate of 50.3%.
Sánchez Llibre warned that this dynamic hinders business competitiveness and limits citizen mobility. The employers' association urged the central government and the Parliament to seek maximum consensus for a definitive solution.
The lack of adequate infrastructure hinders the country's growth capacity. The figures reflect a structural stagnation that penalizes the Catalan economy year after year.