Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, has said that Poland must meet its commitments regarding judicial reform before it can receive money from the Recovery and Resilience Plan.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has defended a new Supreme Court law scrapping a disputed disciplinary chamber for judges, a necessary step to receive EU post-pandemic recovery funds after a senior EU official questioned the validity of the amendment.
Poland will receive EUR 18.9 billion in subsidies from the EU post-pandemic recovery package in the years 2021-2022 and an additional EUR 4.1 in 2023, the latter figure ultimately depending on the country's unemployment rates, the European Commission (EC) has said.
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