Poland to get SFR 489 million from Switzerland in aid for new EU states

Poland to get SFR 489 million from Switzerland in aid for new EU states

Switzerland will spend SFR 1 billion to aid the new EU members under an accord signed today with the EU. Poland will receive SFR 489 million.

The funds are to be spent on regional and national development within the next 5 years.

Thanks to this gesture of solidarity Switzerland has considerably helped reduce economic and social differences in the enlarged EU, EU-chairing Austria's foreign minister Ursula Plassnik said on Monday.