The EU's chief executive sought to reassure angry European lawmakers on Tuesday that Poland would receive no COVID economic recovery funds before it has acted to reinstate independent courts, after having formally unlocked the money last week.
Last week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen succumbed to pressure from some European Union member states to reward Poland for hosting refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine, after withholding executive approval on the funds for a year on the grounds that Warsaw has damaged democracy.
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