Few agreements and lots of criticism is what was expected from the meeting of the Bilateral Infrastructures Committee between the Generalitat and the State held this Friday in Barcelona, and it has delivered. After a two-and-a-half-hour meeting at the Catalan Department of Territory, which neither Spanish nor Catalan ministers attended, the Government has reproached the Spanish executive that "there is no explanation" for the State's investment deficit in Catalonia and demanded a short-term correction. The Spanish government has admitted to the investment deficit and claimed that it is a priority to "reverse the situation", but also claimed that it has sought to create an image of disinvestment "that does not conform to reality".

Far from abating, the storm between the Generalitat and the State over the investment crisis is growing in intensity. On a visit to Catalonia, the Spanish Minister of Transport, Raquel Sánchez, had convened an event to announce several infrastructure improvement projects which ended up deriving in the umpteenth conflict between the Spanish and Catalan governments. In spite of the fact that the Generalitat had previously informed it would attend, it ended up standing up the minister to highlight, once again, its dissatisfaction with State's investment in Catalonia. Relations between the two governments are degrading with every passing day, especially taking into account that this is not the only conflictive area: Catalangate spying scandal is yet to be dealt with and no progress has been made on the conflict over sovereignty.