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Fico: Slovakia should be successful in the 6th payment from the EU through the recovery plan

by AI | 23.Apr 2025 | Europe in brief AI

Robert Fico confirmed at the government meeting that the EU will approve the fifth payment to Slovakia through the national recovery plan.

Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico stated that the EU will approve the fifth payment to Slovakia through the recovery plan. PHOTO: TASR

Bratislava – Slovakia will receive the fifth payment from the Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Slovak Republic amounting to nearly 600 million euros with one hundred percent certainty from Brussels, and it should also be successful in applying for the sixth payment. This was stated by Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) after Wednesday’s government meeting, TASR reports.

Meeting the goals and milestones of the resilience plan was one of the topics of the government meeting. The Prime Minister reminded that Slovakia is seeking a revision of the recovery plan.

“I want to especially highlight the constructive approach of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic and the Minister of the Environment, who found solutions to transfer resources that could not be used in his department for objective reasons to other departments,” said the Prime Minister referring to the actions of Minister Tomáš Taraba.

According to him, the result is that Slovakia will receive the fifth payment of nearly 600 million euros with 100% certainty and is preparing for the sixth payment, which, according to the Prime Minister, is more than one billion euros.

“According to the assessment presented by the State Secretary and the relevant ministers, Slovakia should also be successful in this sixth payment,” Fico added.

Deputy Prime Minister for the Recovery and Resilience Plan and Knowledge Economy Peter Kmec (Hlas-SD) confirmed on April 8, after meetings in Brussels with Céline Gauer, the Director General of the Recovery Plan section at the European Commission, that Slovakia’s fifth request for a payment from the Recovery and Resilience Plan amounting to 570.4 million euros was approved. According to him, the European Commission will also approve the sixth and seventh payments of Slovakia’s recovery plan this year, with around one billion euros expected in June and 550 million euros in October. (April 23)