The Spanish Government has refused to pay Catalonia €759m as established by the Third Additional Provision of the Statute of Autonomy. This was a pledge by the Spanish Ministry of Economy agreed to at the Bilateral Catalonia-Spain Commission, and included in an item of the General Spanish Government Budget of 2011. It was a firm commitment from Spain which, translated to fact is... a lie.
This non payment of €759m is in breach of an Act of Law, which Govenment Budgets are. This situation means strangulation for the Catalan treasury. We should add to this breach a further €1.45bn from the Competitivity Fund that the Spanish Government has also refused to pay.
This is not exceptional: to that, we have to add another €219m owed to Catalonia in unexecuted investments in 2009 and demanded repeatedly by all the Catalan parties in 2011. And there's yet another €191m the Spanish Kingdom owes the Catalan Government for active occupation policies. In this case, one thousand organizations that provide courses are not getting payment because of the Government in Madrid. As an epilogue, the government of the Popular Party introduced as a requirement to pay for the courses (that it wasn't paying anyway) that they are to be held only in Spanish.
To all these debts we have to add any number of delays on payment for other items that have led the Generalitat into a well of exceptional debt. Insane.
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