"Having already visited preferred partners such as US President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV, Poland's new president, Karol Nawrocki, will on Monday evening travel to Germany, a country that Polish right-wing conservatives deeply mistrust. While there, he will meet both German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday. From Berlin, he will travel on to Paris."
""To build a partnership with our western neighbor based on the foundations of truth and good relations, we must finally settle the issue of reparations from the German state, which I unequivocally demand," he said at the Westerplatte Monument war memorial near Gdansk."
"Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the opposition right-wing conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, went one step further on September 1 and called Germany a "post-Nazi state" that had neither punished Nazi criminals nor compensated Nazi victims. In September 2022, a Polish parliamentary commission estimated that Polish war damages amounted to 6.2 trillion zloty (approx. 1.5 trillion or $1.7 trillion)."
Karol Nawrocki, Poland's new president, is traveling to Germany and then to Paris after visiting US President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV. He will meet German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Nawrocki and Polish right-wing conservatives express deep mistrust of Germany and allege that Germany and France dominate the EU to Poland's detriment. Nawrocki reiterated claims for World War II reparations at a September 1 speech at the Westerplatte Monument and said future partnership depends on resolving reparations. Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski called Germany a "post-Nazi state." A parliamentary commission estimated Polish war damages at 6.2 trillion zloty.
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