The PAYMENT by Germany of reparations to Poland for its wartime losses in World War II, spread over 50 annual installments, is absolutely POSSIBLE and manageable for the German budget, presidential adviser Jacek Saryusz-Wolski wrote on X. He indicated that each such installment would—as of today—amount to 0.66 percent of Germany’s GDP.
On Tuesday afternoon, the president summed up his visits to Berlin and Paris at a press briefing. He said that in Germany he spoke with President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Friedrich Merz about, among other things, bilateral trade relations and EU policy. He also said he had opened a discussion on war reparations.
“I suggested that we could move toward (…) financing Poland’s defense industry and military capabilities, which on the one hand would be the beginning of a certain, certainly long, process,” the president emphasized.
Echoing him on X, his adviser, former Law and Justice MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, presented some simple calculations.
“The PAYMENT by Germany of reparations to Poland for its wartime losses in World War II, spread over 50 annual installments, is absolutely POSSIBLE and manageable for the German budget—if only there were the political will,” he wrote on X.
As he argues, payments spread over 50 installments of nearly 29 billion euros each would amount annually to just 0.66 percent of Germany’s GDP.
“Searching for ‘substitutes,’ more or less symbolic, for the repayment of due reparations is a mistake. It is also in Germany’s intergenerational interest to complete the acknowledged guilt and contrition with proper redress,” he concludes.
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— Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (@JSaryuszWolski) September 16, 2025
WYPŁATA przez Niemcy reparacji dla Polski za jej straty wojenne w II WŚ, rozlożonych na 50 rocznych rat, jest absolutnie MOŻLIWA i do udźwignięcia przez niemiecki budżet, gdyby tylko zaistniala taka wola polityczna.
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