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Poland welcomes EU's recovery plan - prime minister

27.05.2020 18:00
The European Union’s recovery plan and proposal to hike the just transition fund is good news and a starting point for further negotiations, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gives a news conference on Wednesday.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gives a news conference on Wednesday.Photo: PAP/Tomasz Gzell

“This will pay off for Europe, pay off for Poland,” Morawiecki told a news conference.

The European Union’s executive unveiled a 750 billion euro plan on Wednesday to prop up economies hammered by the coronavirus crisis.

The European Commission has also increased five-fold its proposed EU fund to wean carbon-intensive regions off fossil fuels.

(Reporting by Agnieszka Barteczko and Alan Charlish; editing by David Evans)

Source: Reuters