KPO and other funds. This is how much money will flow to Poland from the EU this year. “It's an absolute record”
According to the minister, investments from KPO will be one of the “main driving forces” of the Polish economy in 2026, and the inflow of EU funds will give Polish companies the energy to develop. Economists confirm that this year our growth will be based on investments.
— PLN 180 billion: PLN 120 billion from the KPO and PLN 60 billion from other EU funds will flow to Poland in 2026, which is just starting. This is an absolute record since we joined the EU. The Polish economy needs investment. In 2024 our investment to GDP ratio was only 16.9%, while the EU average was over 21.3%. In the neighboring Czech Republic it was 25.5 percent. The situation was similar in previous years, the minister said in an entry on the X website on Friday.
As she indicated, this includes, among others: about producers of rolling stock, i.e. companies Newag, Pesa Bydgoszcz, Pesa Mińsk Mazowiecki, H. Cegielski, PKP Intercity Remtrak, Budimex company, who implements road projects, Unibep (contracts for the modernization of public buildings), Asseco Poland (public administration digitalization and e-services projects), Comarch (implementation of IT systems for the public and health care sectors), KGHM Polska Miedź (investments in energy efficiency and low-emission technologies) and Polfa Tarchomin (expansion and modernization of drug production lines under the health component of the KPO).
Pełczyńska-Nałęcz pointed out that Poland receives EU money thanks to its membership in the EU and is able to “take advantage of this membership”.
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— If we left the EU (as various repeaters of Russian propaganda tempt), there would be neither these investments nor the development of Polish companies. There would be no jobs generated by this money. There would be stagnation and Poland declining. Exactly as Putin wants it, she added.
The sixth and seventh payment application from KPO
In the second half of December 2025, Poland submitted the sixth and seventh applications for payment from the KPO. PLN 29 billion of these applications – as the head of the Ministry of Funds informed then – is to reach Poland in April this year.
The first payment application was submitted to KPO Polska on December 15, 2023, the second and third applications were submitted on September 13, 2024, and the fourth and fifth applications were submitted on December 27, 2024. The last applications for payment from the KPO (eighth and ninth) will be submitted in 2026. According to Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, the money from next year's applications will flow to Poland in August and December 2026.
The last money from the KPO – PLN 26 billion under the fourth and fifth payment applications – was transferred by the EC to Poland at the beginning of December 2025. So far, we have received PLN 93 billion under the KPO.
The Polish KPO consists of 57 investments and 54 reforms. Our country is to receive a total of approximately PLN 232 billion (EUR 54.71 billion) from this program, including PLN 107 billion (EUR 25.27 billion) in the form of grants and PLN 124.8 billion (EUR 29.44 billion) in the form of preferential loans.
