On 29 January 2025, the Government adopted a resolution submitted by the Minister of Funds and Regional Policy to amend the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRP). The changes are directly linked to the submission of Poland's payment request covering the fourth and fifth tranches of NRP funds to the European Commission on 27 December 2024.

On January 16, 2025, the first stage of the call for Polish towns losing their socio-economic functions came to an end. Out of 139 eligible local governments, 119 submitted Programme Component Outlines (first stage applications).

Maintaining sustainable development of the EU, linking EU funds to European reforms, security and investment at the eastern border of Poland and the EU, support for European production and competitiveness. "These are the priorities with which we are setting off for talks with the European Commission; we are setting off to carry out the Polish Presidency of the EU Council," said the Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy, Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz.

We have achieved an extremely ambitious plan: we have surpassed the halfway mark for KPO applications – we have already submitted five of the nine applications planned. Today (27 December 2024), the Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy, Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, signed the 4th and 5th payment claims under the National Recovery Plan.

On 17 December, Poland received PLN 40 billion from the second and third payment requests from the National Recovery Plan. This is already a total of PLN 67 billion, which will contribute to the further development, innovation and competitiveness of the Polish economy in the coming years.

Calls for 93.4 per cent of NRP funds, more than 630,000 contracts signed, investments in thermal modernisation of buildings, road safety, new places in nurseries, broadband internet, modernisation of railway crossings, and support for SMEs in agriculture – this is the balance of a year of investing NRP funds in the Polish economy. This year, Poland will receive a total of PLN 67 billion from the NRP.

The Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy was pleased to note the European Commission's approval of the disbursement of the 2nd and 3rd payment claims under the National Recovery Plan. As announced by Minister Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, another PLN 40 billion from the NRP will arrive in Poland for Christmas. This fact clearly rectifies the irresponsible media reports about the alleged withholding of NRP payments by the European Commission.

Multi-centred national development; mitigating demographic change; creating conditions for a competitive economy; and strengthening security and resilience – these are the strategic objectives of Poland's development in the medium-term national development strategy to 2035, which is being prepared at the MDFRP. The key elements of the new strategy were discussed at the Development Policy Coordination Committee meeting today.

Environmental protection, research and local development, as well as entrepreneurship and innovation, culture, justice and home affairs, education and health, and civil society are examples of areas in Poland where money from the Norwegian and EEA Funds 2014-2021 has gone to. In the third edition of these funds, we implemented almost 1,800 projects. As many as 683 projects were carried out in partnership with companies, institutions and research bodies from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

"During its upcoming presidency of the Council of the European Union, Poland will continue its efforts to strengthen the cohesion issue and take it to a higher level of political discussion in the EU," the Minister for Development Funds and Regional Policy, Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, said today. The Minister attended a meeting of the General Affairs Council in Brussels, dedicated to boosting the key strengths of cohesion policy in the EU.