The European Commission positively assessed, in press release IP/26/2224, Germany’s fourth and final payment request under the Recovery and Resilience Facility, worth €6 billion. Digi24, wrapping Agerpres, wrote on Wednesday, 21 October, that Berlin “will receive” the money. The preliminary assessment is not a transfer into the federal treasury.

The Commission found that Germany had satisfactorily completed the eight milestones and 19 targets set out in the Council implementing decision for this request. With this request, the statement says, Germany has implemented all the reforms and investments in its plan, corresponding to a total of €30.3 billion.

The measures in this instalment cover the clean transition of transport and energy infrastructure, energy efficiency of housing, and the digitalisation of healthcare and public administration. The Commission cites energy-efficient renovation of more than 36,000 buildings, support for over 1,100 district-heating projects, funding for more than 3,000 electric and fuel-cell buses, more than 550 commercial electric vehicles and 1,000 charging stations.

Support also went to digitalisation projects in more than 1,600 hospitals. Funds linked to this measure backed an Important Project of Common European Interest on renewable and low-carbon hydrogen, as well as German firms taking part in another IPCEI on microelectronics.

Germany submitted the request on 25 September 2026. The Commission has sent its preliminary assessment to the Council’s Economic and Financial Committee, which has four weeks to deliver its opinion. Payment can follow after that opinion and after a Commission payment decision.

Once paid, total funds disbursed to Germany would reach €30.3 billion, including €2.5 billion in pre-financing, that is the full allocation in the plan, once the Council has also given the green light. Handelsblatt makes the same point: the last tranche is not transferred until the committee has opined.

The Union created the facility in 2021, worth €573 billion, Digi24 writes after Agerpres; requests could be lodged until the end of September. Headlines about an already approved payment describe the Brussels assessment, not a treasury confirmation.

Image: Andersen Pecorone, Berlaymont, Brussels, 8 March 2015, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons; the building in 2015, not Wednesday assessment.

Sources consulted: Germany will receive the last 6 billion euros from the EU post-COVID recovery fund - Digi24, 21 October 2026; Commission greenlights Germany final payment request for 6 billion under NextGenerationEU - European Commission, 20 October 2026.