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The PAP agency noted that EU funding for the Warsaw National Reconstruction Plan was frozen under the previous Polish government of the national conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party due to rule of law disputes.
“I am pleased to announce that five billion euros have just been transferred to Poland from the REPowerEU program… It is money for cheap energy for Polish citizens,” wrote Pelczyńská-Nalenczová, referring to the project that Part of the National Program is Recovery Plan.
It was created as a tool to mitigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and restart the economy with European money.
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Poland is set to receive 59.82 billion euros from the National Economic Recovery Program, of which 25.3 billion in the form of subsidies and 34.5 billion in the form of low-interest loans, Onet servers and broadcaster TVN 24 said.
In mid-December, a new pro-European cabinet took office under Prime Minister Donald Tusk, which wants to improve relations with Brussels and also promised to restore the rule of law.
In mid-December, after a meeting with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Tusk announced that the EU would send the first five billion euros to Poland this year.
The head of the EU executive announced the first transfer, which relates to the EU program to support the energy transition from fossil fuels to zero-emission sources and is not linked to compliance with the rule of law, and said that more money would follow Poland restores an independent judiciary.
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