Socialists criticize Catalan government for not attending meeting on Mediterranean coast train lineYour browser does not support the video element<p>Salvador Illa, the head of the Catalan branch of the Socialist party, criticized the Catalan government for not attending a meeting with Spanish authorities on the Mediterranean coast train line. </p> <p>"I think it is a mistake that neither the Catalan president nor any other Catalan government representative attended," he said from Brussels. "This is not good for Catalonia."</p> <p><span>A new deadline for the high-speed rail link was announced on Thursday: 2026.</span></p> / ACNshareACNFirst published: November 11, 2021 06:09 PM