CATALONIA
" One of the roots of the current situation is to be found in this
lack of financial autonomy. Catalonia has little capacity, for example,
to decide which road infrastructures to invest in. Madrid decides. As a
result, the Barcelona airport is subordinate to Madrid’s, the
Mediterranean railway corridor is not built, the high-speed train
arrived late at Barcelona, etc. Meanwhile in other regions of the state,
airports are built from which and to which no airplanes fly, high-speed
lines are built that do not have passengers, and freeways which hardly
anyone uses. "