The European Commission disbursed 231 million euros to Slovenia on Friday 17 September as 13% pre-financing for the Slovenian recovery plan under the Next Generation EU Recovery Plan.
Validated at the end of July by the Council of the EU (see EUROPE 12769/1), the Slovenian plan has a budget of 2.5 billion euros, of which 1.8 billion euros in the form of grants and 705 million euros in the form of loans.
At this stage, the Commission has already disbursed more than 49 billion euros in pre-financing to 12 Member States. It is still assessing the plans of six other Member States: Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden.
Ursula von der Leyen is expected to travel to Bucharest on 27 September to convey the Commission’s positive assessment of the Romanian plan, the EU institution’s deputy spokeswoman Dana Spinant said on Friday 17 September.
As for the Hungarian plan, the Commission hopes to conclude discussions with Budapest by the end of September (see EUROPE 12791/8). On Friday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told the country’s public media that the EU institutions did not want to fund the Hungarian plan at this stage “because of the debate around LGTBIQ policy”.
Bulgaria and the Netherlands have yet to submit their national recovery plans at European level. (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)