Government plans €350-700m assistance to Andrej Babiš

The Environment Ministry is to take over cleaning up old waste dumps on land owned by Istrochem Bratislava (Andrej Babiš), and the government will discuss the proposal tomorrow. This would be the largest state aid approved by the current government. It would absorb all EU funds earmarked for cleaning up old environmental burdens, as well as state budget funds. The costs could climb to €350–700m, and approval of the project would run counter to fiscal consolidation goals. Babiš wants to build apartments and offices on the land. Minister Tomáš Taraba did not include the land adjacent to Istrochem, owned by Penta RE, in the clean-up.

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