#83 GenCat: The State’s Annual Budget punishes Catalonia Source: GenCat Date: October 2014.

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In Two
Minutes
The percentage of the State Annual
Budget allocated to Catalonia in 2015
is at its lowest it has been in seventeen
years and consolidates the massive drop
in State investment which began in 2011
% INVESTED IN CATALONIA COMPARED WITH
% OF GDP CONTRIBUTION AND % OF POPULATION
20%
18%
16%
14%
12%
10%
8%
% INVESTED % GDP % POPULATION
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
0 100
1/2
Castile and Leon
Galicia
Cantabria
Extremadura
Asturias
La Rioja
Aragon
Murcia
Castile - La Mancha
Andalusia
Basque Country
Valencia
Madrid
Navarre
CATALONIA
Canary Islands
Balearic Islands
699
504
391
71,7%
336
315
301
298
291
275
233
168
156
154
151
145
127
124
Catalonia is
third Asturias 315
to last in terms of public
investment La Rioja 301
per capita, far from the
Spanish average
Catalonia:
145 € per capita
State average:
242 € per capita
200 300 400 500 600 700
For each euro per person which
the Sate invests in Catalonia…
over four and a half euros are
invested in Castile and León
over three and a half euros
are invested in Galicia
over two and a half are
invested in Cantabria
THESE BUDGETARY PRIORITIES AND COMPARISONS ARE SIGNIFICANT
WHEN EXPLAINING STATE GOVERNMENT POLICIES
State investment in Catalonia
planned for 2015: € 1.072 bn
Compensation to ACS Group
for their withdrawal from the Castor
gas storage project: € 1.35 bn
Having suffered considerable cuts in
the previous year, expenditure in social
services and care for dependent
adults has been suspended.
€ 40 m have been included in the budget to
finance the shuttle train service to Barajas airport.
Madrid has a subway, regional trains and now will
have a shuttle train. Meanwhile, El Prat airport must
seek private ways to finance its transportation.
Active employment policies
receive € 4.7 bn, while in 2010
the investment was € 7.7 bn.
The budget has not taken into
account any of the 23 measures
which were proposed to Rajoy
by President Mas.
The Ministry has frozen its contribution
assigned to Catalonia in culture;
however, budgets allocated to The Prado,
Reina Sofía and The Thyssen have
increased significantly.
Military spending has increased in the annual
budget. The Ministry of Defence has a larger budget
that the Ministry of Public Works and Transport
or than the Ministry of Industry.
In 2015, the State will increase the budget of the
Prado Museum by 9%, which will go onto receive
a total of € 42 m: an amount larger than to sum total
of all the cultural institutions in Catalonia combined.
Transfers in healthcare to
autonomous communities
has been reduced by 56%.
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State investment
in Catalonia (9.5%)
accounts for half of what
Catalonia contributes to
the Spain in terms
of economic activity
(18.8%)
Since 2009, actual public
investment in Spanish
autonomous communities
has been reduced by 55%.
During the same period, public
investment in Catalonia has
been reduced by 71.7%
October
2014
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The State’s Annual Budget
punishes Catalonia