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Commission pushing Poland to accept rule of law milestones in recovery plan

Brussels also poised to trigger the EU’s new conditionality mechanism over the bloc’s core principles.

The European Commission is ready to approve Poland’s recovery plan as soon as November if Warsaw will agree to certain legally binding objectives to restore the rule of law, according to officials familiar with the EU’s plan.

  • Jakob Hanke Vela and Suzanne Lynch
  • Politico

That would pave the way for the EU to pay out the first installment, amounting to 13 percent of the total, of Poland’s recovery package of almost €24 billion in grants.

Brussels’ plan is to link the disbursement of Poland’s EU recovery cash to legally binding “milestones” in which the government would commit to re-establishing the…

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