The European Commission announced on Tuesday, 28 September, that it has disbursed pre-financing payments for the Austrian, Croatian, and Czech recovery plans (see EUROPE 12765/16) under the NextGenerationEU recovery plan.
The payments—€450 million for Austria, €818 million for Croatia, and €915 million for the Czech Republic—are equivalent to 13% of the total allocation for each national plan.
“At this stage, the European Commission has disbursed €51.5 billion in pre-financing to 16 Member States”, indicated Veerle Nuyts, a spokesperson for the European Union institution.
The European Commission is still assessing the plans of five other Member States: Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Poland, and Sweden. The Council of the EU adopted the Cypriot, Irish, and Slovak plans and is expected to likewise adopt the Maltese plan in Luxembourg on Tuesday, 5 October.
Bulgaria and the Netherlands have yet to submit their recovery plans at the European level. (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)