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Poland may redirect EU funds towards defence, minister says
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Posted on March 4, 2025
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1 min readLast updated: January 25, 2026
Poland plans to redirect EU recovery funds towards defence, aiming to enhance security and economic resilience, with up to 30 billion zlotys potentially allocated.
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will review its Recovery and Resilience Plan with a view to redirecting funds towards defence and economic resilience, Polish Funds Minister Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz said on Tuesday.
The minister said last month that EU funds should be redirected from the EU recovery facility to security. The EU's recovery facility provides Poland with nearly 60 billion euros ($63.1 billion) in grants and cheap loans.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk later said Pelczynska-Nalecz had told him that she was working on releasing up to 30 billion zlotys ($7.6 billion) to shift these funds to "broadly understood defence and defence industry".
"This will require urgent and full cooperation of other ministries," Tusk said ahead of a government sitting.
He also said works on a bill on public investments in defence needed to speed up and that the bill could possibly be adopted by the government next week.
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(Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk and Pawel Florkiewicz, editing by Ed Osmond)
Poland is reviewing its Recovery and Resilience Plan to redirect EU funds towards defence and economic resilience.
Poland is looking to release up to 30 billion zlotys, which is approximately $7.6 billion, for defence initiatives.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk emphasized the need for urgent cooperation among ministries to facilitate the funding shift.
Tusk mentioned that work on a bill for public investments in defence needs to accelerate, with potential adoption by the government next week.
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