The 2008-2010 economic crisis, aggravated by the bursting of the housing bubble, consumption has plummeted, and with it the industrial production has been added to a stagnation of the Catalan economy, despite continuous economic growth the metropolis of Barcelona, he has lost in the last quarter century the economic capital of Spain for Madrid, especially in the financial field. This is due to the fragmentation of traditional Catalan entrepreneur tissue reduces the competitiveness, the saturation of infrastructure, the largest foreign investment made in Madrid over Barcelona, and the decision traslado centers, tax offices and social Barcelona and also from other parts of Spain to Madrid. In industry, Barcelona has had serious problems of relocation, mainly to relocation of industries to countries with cheaper labor, the case including Braun, Phillips and Samsung. Problem exacerbated by the scarce and expensive industrial land in the metropolitan area, the second most expensive in Europe just behind London. Still, there have also been demonstrations of all or part of public companies to Barcelona (as REPSOL RENFE) as well as investments and foreign locations, far greater than the relocation, so that Barcelona continues to be an industrial capital of Spain, reaching in some subsectors generate 25% of total exports españolas.
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