The European Union is to release €137 billion of withheld funds from Poland due to rule of law concerns, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday. Next week, the commission “will come forward with two decisions on European funds that are currently blocked for Poland,” von der Leyen said at a press briefing in Warsaw. “These decisions will free up €137 billion for Poland.” Concerns about judicial reforms under Poland’s previous nationalist government prompted the commission to withhold money from the EU budget that would normally have been spent in Poland. But in Octobe…