The government's announcements are part of the wider context of the scandal related to the distribution of KPO funds for the HoReCa industry (hotels, restaurants, catering).
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The support program for this sector caused a wave of criticism, including because of allegations of lack of transparency, delays in recruitment and unclear criteria for granting subsidies. Doubts also concerned whether HoReca should be treated as a strategic industry, especially since other key sectors of the economy are still waiting for their support instruments.
The case ended with the resignation of the President of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, and the opposition raised allegations of favoring selected companies and a lack of supervision over billions of euros from EU funds.
The scandal around KPO. The deputy minister announces changes. He also mentions the approach of the European Commission
As the Deputy Minister of Funds and Regional Policy Jan Szyszko assessed in an interview with the WNP portal “There is no more social consent to subsidize all industries that we do not consider strategic for the state.”
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– If I created KPO from scratch today, I wouldn't make it in the grant formula Sryszko admitted, referring to previous decisions.
The deputy minister emphasized that the KPO search must take into account a wider, political context. – You need to understand what the priorities of the European Commission are. The Reconstruction Fund is a total political priority for the chairwoman of the EC – he said.
Jan Szyszko also described how he perceives the need to revise the mechanism of allocating funds from funds from the national reconstruction plan. – It seems to me that entrepreneurs should, as a rule, be supported by cheap preferential loans. In addition to specific industries that we identify as strategically important. Grants should go there – he said.
