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Updated: 12/28/2023 12:58 p.m. Issued: 12/28/2023 12:58 p.m
Illustration photo – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a press conference on December 27, 2023. AP/Czarek Sokolowski
Warsaw – Poland received five billion euros (around 123 billion crowns) from EU funding for reconstruction. She informed about it on the network today X Polish Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy Katarzyna Pelczyńská-Nalenczová. 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. Rzeczpospolita emphasized that it is not necessary to meet any legal conditions for the money that has now been released.
“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 using European funds. The REPowerEU plan was added after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and is intended, among other things, to help the countries of the Union break away from their dependence on Russian fossil fuels.
Poland has now received the first advance under the REPowerEU project, which was negotiated by the government of former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, writes Rzeczpospolita. According to the Wprost server, it was approved by the European Commission in early December. This amount is unrelated to the demand of the new Polish government, which in mid-December requested around seven billion euros from the “real” national economic stimulus program, for which the conditions must already be met, noted Wprost.
Additional funding is conditional on Warsaw repealing the previous government’s judicial system reforms, which the European Commission said limited the independence of the Polish judiciary, as the Financial Times pointed out some time ago. Around 60 billion euros in EU funding was earmarked for Poland to recover from the pandemic, but most of it was frozen by Brussels for failing to respect democratic principles.
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 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Tusk announced the transfer of the first five billion euros from the EU to Poland. Announcing the first transfer related to the EU program to support the energy transition from fossil fuels to zero-emission sources, the head of the EU executive said more money would follow after Poland restored an independent judiciary.
“The first European transfer is already in the account of the Polish state!” wrote Tusk in response on the platform today X. “It will be done as I promised,” he added.
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