€1.18 billion and €128 million payments to the Netherlands and Denmark move forward under NextGenerationEU with Commission's positive preliminary assessments

The Commission issued positive preliminary assessments of the Netherlands' payment request for €1.18 billion and Denmark's payment request for €128 million under NextGenerationEU, the centrepiece of Europe's recovery efforts to build a greener, more digital and competitive Union. The Commission preliminarily concluded that the Netherlands and Denmark have fulfilled the milestones and targets required for these payments, financed under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the key instrument of NextGenerationEU.