RRF Plans

Comparison of Recovery and Resilience Facility plans in V4 countries. Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary put emphasis on excellence, digitization and human resources. This is not the case of Slovakia where the focus is on building the standard hospital network.

In April 2021, V4 countries officially submitted their Recovery and Resilience Facility Plans (RRF) to the Commission. Comparing the national plans has turned out to be a bit challenging because each plan has a different structure (e.g., health care and social care often overlaps) fitting the purposes as defined by the Article 3 of the RRF Regulation. Nevertheless, there are interesting findings that can be drawn from submitted papers we would like to describe in this article.  
 
All the V4 countries are planning to introduce reforms and investment projects in their healthcare system, the share of the total amount of grants and loans required, however, varies considerably. In Hungary, for instance, it accounts for 34.1% of the entire RRF budget. On the contrary, in the Czech Republic only 6.9% of the total volume of financial resources should go to healthcare (Table 1).

Table 1: Recovery and Resilience plan in V4 countries