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Polish lawmakers to approve 2024 budget this week: prime minister

16.01.2024 19:00
Poland's parliament will greenlight the 2024 budget by the end of the week, and the government will increase the family allowance ahead of schedule, the prime minister has said.  
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.PAP/Leszek Szymański

Donald Tusk made the statement via social media on Tuesday, public broadcaster Polish Radio's polskieradio24.pl website reported.

The prime minister said that the 2024 budget would be approved "by the end of the week," adding that the border with Ukraine "has been unblocked," following the government's agreement with protesting transport companies. 

Tusk also announced that the family allowance would be increased to PLN 800 (around EUR 184) per child per month "earlier than foreseen in the law." 

Polish MPs on Tuesday debated the draft 2024 budget and are due to vote on the plan on Thursday, polskieradio24.pl reported.

Meanwhile, the minister for infrastructure, Dariusz Klimczak, on Tuesday announced that Polish hauliers had agreed to "suspend their blockade of Poland's Korczowa, Hrebenne and Dorohusk checkpoints with Ukraine, until March," pending policy solutions to the standoff. 

The family allowance has been raised as of the new year; the new rules foresaw that the first payments would be made by the end of February, polskieradio24.pl reported.  

Source: polskieradio24.pl, PAP