After the change of government, Poland received 5 billion. euros from the EU

This is part of the funds for recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic, to which the country is entitled under the National Economic Recovery Plan.

According to this plan, Poland is to receive 23.9 billion. EUR grants and 11.5 billion euro loans from the EU pandemic liquidation fund, but the allocation of funds was frozen due to a dispute between Brussels and the previous Polish government over the principles of the rule of law.

Poland’s new government, which took office in mid-December, is determined to mend relations with Brussels that soured over judicial reforms by the previous conservative Law and Justice (PiS) government, which the EU says violated the rule of law. As a result, the EU froze funds for Poland.

In mid-December, the Minister of Funds and Regional Policy, Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz, said that Poland would receive the promised 5 billion euros by the end of the month. euro advance. The first part of the funding was dedicated to the energy transition.

“I am pleased to announce that 5 billion euros from the RePowerEU program has just arrived in Poland,” the minister wrote on the X social network.

“This is money for cheap green energy for Polish citizens,” she said.

Later, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk also commented on the news.

“The first European transfer is already in the Polish state account!” he wrote “X”. – More than 20 billion zlotys!’

“It’s done as I promised,” Tusk added.

Tusk, who previously served as Poland’s prime minister from 2007 to 2014 and was president of the European Council from 2014 to 2019, has vowed to unblock billions of euros in EU aid.