The European Commission has given a positive assessment of the Irish recovery plan and on Friday 16 July, it proposed that the Council of the European Union should formally approve it.
This recovery plan will allow Ireland to be “even better prepared” for future challenges: 42% of its budget will be used for climate transition and 32% for the digital transition, said Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, on a trip to Dublin, where she met the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin.
The plan has been allocated EUR 989 million in the form of grants only.
Mrs von der Leyen will travel to Prague next Monday to deliver the Commission’s assessment of the Czech plan.
When asked about the Hungarian and Polish recovery plans that are being assessed, the deputy spokesperson for the Commission, Dana Spinant, said that discussions between the EU institution and the authorities in both countries were ongoing. The European Commission has not formally requested at this stage that the review of the Hungarian plan is extended, she said. She also refused to confirm claims from the Hungarian side that a trip by von der Leyen to Budapest to hand over the assessment of the Hungarian plan had been scheduled, but was then cancelled after a Hungarian law stigmatising LGBTQ people was adopted (see EUROPE 12763/1).
On Tuesday, the Ecofin Council adopted the recovery plans put forward by twelve Member States (see EUROPE 12761/1). (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)