This is not part of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, but a separate EU funding instrument: Greece has secured the largest Social Climate Plan approved so far, with €3.58 billion in EU financing for vulnerable households, transport users and micro-enterprises through 2032.
The initital budget of the Public Investment Programme for 2023 was raised by 800 million euros with supplementary budgets to deal with increased needs for the restoration of damages from natural disasters.
The European Commission endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Greece's third payment request of 3.64 billion euros (1.69 bln in grants and 1.95 bln in loans), under the Recovery & Resilience Facility (RRF).
The European Commission will file a lawsuit in the European Court of Justice against six countries EU for “failure to prevent the introduction of invasive alien species harmful to European nature”.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen officially made the announcement
