Poland will review its recovery and resilience plan with a view to redirecting funds to defense and economic resilience, Polish Finance Minister Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalec said, quoted by "Reuters".
The minister said in February that EU funds should be redirected from the EU recovery mechanism to security. The EU recovery mechanism provides Poland with nearly 60 billion euros in grants and cheap loans.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk later said that Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nalec had told him that she was working on allocating up to 30 billion zlotys (1.8 billion euros) to transfer these funds to the defense industry.
"This will require urgent and full cooperation from other ministries," Tusk noted before the government meeting.
He also said that work on a bill on public investment in defense should be accelerated and that the bill could probably be adopted by the government next week.