A spokesman for the foreign ministry said that Poland should get money from the EU's post-pandemic recovery funds because it deserves it.
This is money that belongs to Poland and our society, said Lukasz Jasina, a public radio broadcaster.
He said that Poland has a huge contribution to the economic success of the European Union, pays contributions and has honestly approached all matters relating to the adoption of the European Recovery Plan. Poland's access to the multi billion euro fund, which aims to help member states recover from the Pandemic, was put on hold due to a rule-of- law dispute.
Jasina hopes that the European Commission will understand that there are more important things than blocking Polish society politically and bringing our society to the brink of economic endurance. He also spoke about the words of Guy Verhofstadt MEP Renew Europe Group who tweeted on Monday that Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's ruling party Law and Justice PiS wants to get rid of head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen if she doesn't pay. We in the European Parliament want to get rid of her if she pays Verhofstadt.
In response, Jasina said that extremism happens everywhere, and one should not submit to extremist politicians, but rationally decide about the future of Europe, and that a rational decision would be to pay Poland the money owed to them. The European Commission approved Poland's post-pandemic recovery plan KPO on June 1. Von der Leyen said that Poland must meet its commitments regarding judicial reforms before it can receive any money under KPO.