Poland will only receive the money from its $38bn post-Covid economic recovery package if it carries out rule of law reforms, EC chief Ursula von der Leyen said Poland’s hard line against Moscow has thawed relations between Brussels and Warsaw. “A first payment will only be possible when the new law is in force and ticks all the boxes under our contract,” von der Leyen said, according to AFP. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said on Thursday that the executive body has endorsed a Polish plan to address concerns over the country’s judiciary that would unfreeze coffers from a $38bn European Union coronavirus recovery fund. The European Commission has opened the door for giving Poland billions of dollars in aid, which had been blocked during a dispute over judicial independence in the country. 19:51 GMT EC moves to unlock aid package for Poland over Ukraine For the latest news on June 3 please see here The live blog is now closed, thank you for joining us. US President Joe Biden is expected to meet NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House on Thursday.Officials say a Russian missile hit rail lines in the western Lviv region, a key conduit for Western weapons and other supplies.Luhansk’s regional governor says civilians are sheltering under a chemical plant in Severodonetsk as Russian forces make steady gains on the key eastern city.Zelenskyy estimates that 200,000 children are among the Ukrainians who have been forcefully taken to Russia and dispersed across the vast country.The tally does not include places of active conflict. At least 261 children have been killed and 460 injured since the start of the war, according to Ukraine’s prosecutor general.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is currently occupying about 20 percent of Ukraine’s territory.
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