The European Commission announced on Friday that President Ursula von der Leyen will visit Croatia and Cyprus next week to personally present a positive assessment of their national recovery and resilience plans.

President von der Leyen has decided to personally deliver the national recovery and resilience plan to each of the 27 member states.

She will visit Nicosia and Zagreb next Thursday and present both governments with an assessment of their recovery and resilience plans, the Commission said.

Croatia’s plan has been given the green light by the Commission sooner that expected considering that Croatia was among five EU member states that requested an extension to submit it.

Croatia presented its National Recovery and Resilience Plan on May 15 and the Commission had two months to approve it; its assessment was expected at the end of July.

Now that the Commission has assessed the national plans, they will be sent to the Council of the EU for approval and then each member state can count on 13 percent of their allocation from the NextGenerationEU recovery and resilience fund.

Croatia has €6.3 billion in grants and €3.6 billion in loans available from the Recovery and Resilience Facility.

Croatia for now plans to use the grants first, after which it will decide whether it will also use the loans.

Croatia’s plan consists of five components and one initiative: a green and digital economy; public administration and judiciary; education, science, research; labour market and social welfare; and health. The initiative refers to reconstruction of buildings.

The plan also includes measures to improve the business environment, education, research and development, energy efficiency of buildings, transport with zero green-house emissions and developing renewable energy sources.