Justice minister blames Germany for blocking EU funding

The Polish justice minister has accused the head of the European Commission (EC) of "cheating" the prime minister, while claiming Germany is responsible for the EU blocking Poland's access to the post-pandemic recovery fund. In an attack on Ursula von der Leyen, the EC president, and her homeland Germany, Zbigniew Ziobro said Poland had been "robbed" of its funding under the bloc's Recovery and Resilience Facility and that German policy had "played a leading role in that robbery."