EU Stimulus Plan Hits Snag Over Polish Coalition Discord
- Three-way alliance is split over the 750 billion-euro fund
- Premier Morawiecki isn’t worried ratification could fail
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Poland again delayed ratification of the European Union’s pandemic stimulus plan, all but assuring that bickering within its ruling coalition will cause it to miss the end-April deadline.
It’s “highly probable” that the ratification process will start in early May, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday. The package is worth around 800 billion euros ($958 billion) and is a critical plank of the bloc’s recovery from the devastating impact that Covid-19 has had on the economy.