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12/08/2025

20:54

Pełczyńska-Nałęcz on her conversation with Tusk regarding the KPO:

And that’s what I told the Prime Minister…

Michał Olech

Editor, the Ministry of Funds and my responsibility lies in ensuring that European funds and the KPO are implemented according to the rules. This also means that I organize and supervise controls. Where things are wrong, I identify the errors and these errors are accounted for. Under me, if you look at it that way, there are currently about one and a half million concluded agreements. It is not the role of a minister to read, it is simply impossible to read each of these agreements. The operators, the implementing agencies, are responsible for individual agreements. However, my role is to ensure compliance with the rules, and if something is not in accordance with the rules, then to hold them accountable, to demand the return of funds, and this is happening in this case absolutely and effectively – stated Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz in the program „Fakty po faktach” on TVN24, when asked again if her resignation was considered. - The issue exists. It has two dimensions. Firstly, people are outraged, even if there are few such agreements, where there are irregularities, they are outrageous. So, they have been pointed out, they will be investigated, where things are wrong, it will be accounted for. And this is what I told the Prime Minister: until it is accounted for, until there is clear justice and also information for people about what happened, it is difficult to consider the matter closed. However, the second dimension, which we also discussed today at the Council of Ministers, is the implementation of the entire KPO, the implementation of HoReCa, so that all honest beneficiaries receive these funds and that the KPO moves forward as quickly as possible – she continued. - For the entire matter, if you look solely at HoReCa, Law and Justice is responsible. This project was introduced into the KPO by Law and Justice. Subsequently, it was amended, so-called revision of this project took place, and after the revision, the program can no longer be withdrawn from the KPO – Pełczyńska-Nałęcz summarized.

Michał Olech