- Poland has just received EUR 5 billion from the RePowerEU programme, which is part of the NRP. The funds will be invested in low-cost green energy for Polish citizens, the Minister for Funds and Regional Policy Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz announced.

High-speed internet access, thermal modernisation of multi-family buildings and subsidising new childcare facilities for children up to the age of three are some of the investments on which the funds from the first NRP request will be spent. These funds will benefit everyone in our country.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk, on the proposal of Minister of Funds and Regional Policy Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, appointed Maciej Lasek, Jacek Protas and Jan Szyszka as Secretaries of State at the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy.

Poland has sent its first request for payment from the National Reconstruction Plan to the European Commission. From the first payment request, our country will receive almost EUR 7 billion (over PLN 31 billion), including almost EUR 2.8 billion from the grant part and EUR 4.2 billion from the loan.

President Andrzej Duda appointed Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz as the Minister of Funds and Regional Policy on 13 December 2023 at the request of Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

At the request of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, President Andrzej Duda appointed on 27 November 2023 Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak as Minister of Funds and Regional Policy. Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak previously served as Deputy Minister of Funds and Regional Policy.

The European Commission today issued a positive opinion on the revised Polish National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NIP). It contains the additional EUR 23 billion in loans that Poland requested on 31 March and the additional EUR 2.76 billion in REPowerEU subsidies programmed in the revised NRP sent to the EC on August 31. The advances that Poland will soon receive amount to 20 per cent of this sum, or more than EUR 5 billion.

Thanks to this legislation, people with special needs will have easier access to facilities such as payment terminals and ATMs. These are just some of the benefits of the bill on accessibility of certain products and services. The regulation adapts Polish law to the requirements of an EU directive (the so-called European Accessibility Act or EAA).

The Deputy Minister of Funds and Regional Policy, Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak, and the Swiss Ambassador to Poland, Fabrice Filliez, signed two agreements within the second edition of the Swiss-Polish Cooperation Programme. They will enable launching the Urban Development Programme and the Research and Innovation Programme. The first will contribute to strengthening the socio-economic development of medium-sized towns cities and the second to intensifying research cooperation between research centres and businesses in Poland and Switzerland.

Safety of residents and drivers, more efficient commuting without the need to drive through the housing estates – this is the aim of the construction of the S1 expressway between Przybędza and Milówka, i.e. the Węgierska Górka bypass. The investment long-awaited by the region’s residents is getting closer to completion. The Minister for Funds and Regional Policy, Grzegorz Puda, participated on Thursday in the operation to finally pierce the last section in the tunnel being excavated in the massif of Barania Góra.