DR. ANDREU MAS-COLELL, CATALAN’S MINISTER OF ECONOMY, weighs in about the Spain-Catalan economic disparity issue at the heart of the Independence movement in Catalunya. Even other autonomous regions of Spain have cut fairer deals with Madrid.
http://www.catalannewsagency.com/news/politics/catalonia-contributed-85-its-gdp-infrastructures-and-services-rest-spain-2010