EUR 280 million to be spent on further improvements to border security

According to the accession treaty Poland may invest up to EUR 280 million to tighten border security by 2006. "If we do not manage to spend the budget of almost EUR 93 million for each year over the next three years, we will not lose these grants, as they will roll over," said Maciej Szydłowski from the Interior Ministry. He added that all of the money will be spent on improving and expanding our eastern border crossings, and IT projects, such as linking national databases on criminals. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B3) M.M.