section_path: Political views/Foreign policy
section_name: Foreign policy
paragraph_text: Foreign policy
  
  Karol Nawrocki has emphasised in his statements that the geopolitical interest of the Polish state lies in pushing back the Russian Federation. He has stated that "Russia is imperialist in its foundation whether it is white terror, red terror or modern terror". According to him, the foundation of Poland's security is a strong position within NATO and a close alliance with the United States. He also supports regional alliances such as the Bucharest Nine and favours expanding this format to include Sweden and Finland. Nawrocki is an advocate of increasing defense spending and expanding the army to 300,000 troops. However, he opposes conscription or mandatory military training for young men.
  
  Nawrocki opposes the federalisation of the European Union and stresses the need to maintain Polish national identity within the European Union, adding that "Poland does not need a centralised state populated by EU citizens of Polish origin". Nawrocki criticised what he considered to be the overly submissive policy of Donald Tusk's government toward Germany. He advocated for the restoration of a balanced and partnership-based relationship between the two countries. He also demands World War II reparations from Germany for material losses and war crimes committed in occupied Poland.
  
  He supports ending the Russo-Ukrainian War by a peace agreement but argues that the issue of territorial cessions should be decided by the European community as well as Ukraine itself. Nawrocki opposed the deployment of Polish troops to Ukraine. He supported the normalisation of relations with Ukraine on a basis of partnership, as well as the recognition and dignified burial of Polish victims in Volhynia. Nawrocki is opposed to Ukrainian membership in NATO or the European Union until Ukraine accepts responsibility for the genocide of Poles in Volhynia. He has previously denounced attempts to downplay the 1943 – 1945 massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia for the sake of improving Polish-Ukrainian relations. He would seek to punish the glorification of Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera. He was accused of anti-Ukrainian sentiment, and when accused of speaking "Putin's language" on Ukraine, he responded: "I speak the language of Polish people. Millions want to say that Zelensky mistreats us, but they're silenced with 'you're spreading Putin's propaganda'."
  
  He was criticised in Israel for downplaying the role of Poles in the Holocaust. Nawrocki said he would defend Poland "against all disgusting attacks" by Holocaust scholars. Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, publicly defended Nawrocki in response to the criticism. During the election campaign, he refrained from criticising Israel.