Mateusz Morawiecki said the money could be used to build roads, water and sewage systems and libraries, and to upgrade playgrounds and recreational areas.
“One of the Achilles' heels of the development [of post-communist Poland] was undoubtedly the lack of concern” for such areas, Morawiecki told reporters.
Announcing the support programme earlier this year, Morawiecki said that some villages whose residents worked for state-owned farms “were doomed to oblivion and poverty” under previous governments in the 1990s and 2000s.
He added: "It is important to level the playing field for all residents of those villages that were painfully hit by the injustice” of Poland’s rapid transformation to a free market economy after the collapse of communism in 1989.
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Source: PAP