Poland set to get over €5 billion for energy crisis recovery plan

Poland is set to receive more than €5 billion in EU funds after the European Commission gave a positive assessment Tuesday of the country’s revised recovery plan that includes green reforms and investments.

As reported by AP, the €5.1 billion pre-financing is part of the bloc’s REPowerEU program aimed at helping the 27 EU nations recover from the energy crisis that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, and reduce their dependance to Russian fossil fuels.

The announcement came a month after an election in Poland secured a parliamentary majority to pro-EU parties aligned with Donald Tusk, the former EU Council president who has won the recent Polish elections, expected to become Poland’s next prime minister.