Money from KPO. The minister reveals the list of companies that will benefit the most. The list includes giants from the WSE

In 2026, PLN 180 billion will flow to Poland, including PLN 120 billion from the National Reconstruction Plan (KPO), Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, Minister of Funds and Regional Policy, announced on Friday. She added that Poland needs investments, and our investment to GDP ratio is lower than the EU average.

“PLN 180 billion – PLN 120 billion from 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 entered the EU. The Polish economy needs investments. In 2024, the investment to GDP ratio was only 16.9 percent, while the EU average was over 21.3 percent. In the neighboring Czech Republic it was 25.5 percent. The situation was similar in the previous years,” the minister said in an entry on the X website on Friday.

In her opinion, 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.

As she indicated, this includes, among others: o producers of railway rolling stock, i.e. Newag, Pesa Bydgoszcz, Pesa Mińsk Mazowiecki, H. Cegielski, PKP Intercity Remtrak, Budimex, which implements road projects, Unibep (contracts for the modernization of public buildings), Asseco Poland (projects for the digitization of public administration and e-services), Comarch (implementation of IT systems for the public and health care sectors), KGHM Polska Miedź (investments in efficiency energy and low-emission technologies) and Polfa Tarchomin (expansion and modernization of drug production lines as part of 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”. “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 also be no jobs generated by this money. There would be stagnation and a decline in Poland. Exactly as Putin wants it,” she added.

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 – on September 13, 2024, and the fourth and fifth applications – 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 payment 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 subsidies and PLN 124.8 billion (EUR 29.44 billion) in the form of preferential loans. (PAP)

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