Overview

• Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will host Karol Nawrocki in Berlin on Tuesday for his first official visit as Poland’s president.
• Nawrocki plans to raise World War II reparations, a demand Germany’s Poland commissioner Knut Abraham says is legally closed.
• Recent Russian drone incursions over Polish airspace have sharpened the focus on defense cooperation as NATO steps up operations on the eastern flank.
• Nawrocki arrives after securing U.S. assurances in Washington that American forces will not be withdrawn from Poland, with potential for additional deployments.
• German officials highlight stronger security support for Poland through funding, weapons and Bundeswehr units, alongside symbolic gestures such as a Berlin monument to Polish wartime victims.