The first tranche of money from the European Union will flow to Poland at the turn of the year – Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in the southern town of Gliwice
The head of the government was asked at a press conference in Gliwice (Silesian Voivodeship) about funds earmarked for Poland as part of the National Recovery Plan. Morawiecki said that Poland should sooner or later start receiving cash both from “traditional” EU funds – like Cohesion Fund and Common Agricultural Policy – and the National Recovery Fund.
He added Poland was close to finalising negotiations on the Partnership Agreement with the European Commission. Partnership agreements between the European Commission and individual EU countries set out the national authorities’ plans on how to use funding from the European structural and investment funds.
The European Commission approved billions of euros in COVID-19 economic recovery funds for Poland on June 1. Under the deal, Poland is to get 23.9 billion euros in grants and 11.5 billion euros in cheap loans over several years.
But the Commission said the plan included milestones related to important aspects of the independence of the judiciary and which had to be put in place for the recovery plan to be effective.
