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POLAND ON TRACK TO UNLOCK €76B IN EU FUNDS, WARSAW MINISTER SAYS

European Commission says it is still assessing the situation.

"Poland meets the last three conditions necessary for the full mobilization of
structural funds” Minister Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nalęcz said on social media |
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By Jeremy Van der Haegen
January 20, 2024 1:46 pm CET
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Warsaw is on the path to unblocking €76 billion in EU cash that was frozen over
rule-of-law-concerns, said Poland's minister for funds and regional policy. 

Payout of the funds from the EU’s 2021-2027 budget have been blocked over legal
concerns after the government led by the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party
implemented judicial reforms that threatened to subvert the independence of
Polish courts. The PiS administration was replaced in December by a new
government led by pro-EU Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has promised to free up
EU funds by reinstating the rule of law.

"We have confirmation from the European Commission — Poland meets the last three
conditions necessary for the full mobilization of structural funds — €76 billion
for the implementation of programs until 2027,” Funds and Regional Policy
Minister Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nalęcz said Friday evening on social media.



In a television interview on Saturday, the minister said that the first blocked
structural funds should arrive in Poland by the end of March or early April;
Poland has submitted a request for a payment of €6.9 billion.


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"There is a green light so that we can finally submit documents for the
structural funds — this is called a self-assessment," she said, adding that
after the assessment is reviewed by the European Commission, Poland will be able
to submit funding applications to Brussels. "This is another two-three months
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The European Commission told Reuters news agency that Warsaw had officially
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"We are analyzing the letter submitted by the Polish authorities to assess
whether Poland fulfills the enabling condition in the area of judicial
independence," the Commission said in an email, Reuters reported. "The
Commission has three months to make this assessment," it added.

In December, Poland received the first €5 billion of funding that had been
blocked by the EU due to democratic backsliding. That money was aimed at
assisting EU countries in lessening their reliance on Russian fossil fuels and
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2022. 

Pełczyńska-Nałęcz also mentioned that the new Polish government will have to
pass legislation rolling back changes to the judicial system and restore the
independence of courts to unblock €35 billion in grants and loans from the EU's
pandemic relief program.



However, that would have to be approved by Polish President Andrzej Duda, a PiS
loyalist who is wary of undoing his party's legal changes. The new Tusk
government doesn't have the votes in parliament to override Duda's veto.

Justice Minister Adam Bodnar is starting by making personnel changes, removing
politically compromised prosecutors and judges from their posts.

However, to fully align with demands from Brussels, the government will have to
pass a law revamping the National Council of the Judiciary (NCJ), the body that
chooses new judges, but which has been found to be politically compromised by
European courts.

“The functioning of the National Council of the Judiciary should be thoroughly
reformed, in particular the mode of electing members should be repaired,” Bodnar
said last week, adding that the government is preparing legislation to make that
happen.

Deputy Justice Minister Dariusz Mazur said he is counting on Duda to be “willing
to fix this status of the NCJ together with us."



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