Havlicek: National Recovery Plan to total CZK 191 bn

Upon a debate with Brussels, the Czech government approved a 10 percent budget reserve top-up to the National Recovery Plan which serves the basis for the Czech Republic's drawing money from the EU's new fund, and thus the overall sum reaches nearly 191 billion crowns (EUR 7.4bn), Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlicek said on Thursday. At today's question time in the lower house, Industry and Trade and Transport Minister Havlicek warned that the plan cannot satisfy all applicants as otherwise it would splinter into hundreds of small projects and the promised vision would not be fulfilled. Havlicek stressed that the National Recovery Plan was the most publicly consulted document in recent years.