Overview
- President Salvador Illa formally signed the third Pacte Nacional per a la Indústria at the Port of Barcelona on June 15, 2026, committing an initial near‑€4.5 billion package through 2030 and a joint aspiration to reach €5 billion if budgets permit.
- The agreement bundles 190 actions across priority areas such as semiconductors, AI, agroindustry, automotive, industrialized housing, infrastructure upgrades and expanded vocational training places.
- A significant share of the announced envelope reflects ordinary or previously planned spending, including about €500 million for desalination and water resilience, so some funds are re‑labelled rather than wholly new cash.
- Employers and unions — Foment, Pimec, CCOO and UGT — helped design and endorsed the pact, which aims to raise firm productivity, attract investment and grow the size of Catalan companies that are now mostly microenterprises.
- Implementation hinges on future parliamentary budget deals with partners such as ERC and the Comuns and on constrained public finances, a gap that will determine how quickly the plan reverses decades of industrial decline in Catalonia.