Authors: Analysis and map – Jędrzej Błaszczak, information collection – Piotr Gawrycki, translation – Dominik Wereszko
Less than six months after being sworn in, Karol Nawrocki held 23 foreign meetings with the leaders of 16 countries — 16 personal visits and 7 phone calls. An analysis of the new president’s diplomatic calendar reveals a coherent geopolitical logic, in which individual travel destinations form a clear hierarchy of priorities.
Washington as a point of reference. The United States undeniably remains the most important direction in the new president’s foreign policy. Nawrocki maintained as many as six contacts with the American administration — from a teleconference regarding Ukraine, through an official visit to the White House in September, to a meeting with Donald Trump on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The visit to Washington was complemented by active participation in the 80th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, where the president held bilateral talks with heads of state from several continents and met with representatives of American business. The intensity of these contacts indicates a conscious building of relations with a key ally at a time when the European security architecture is undergoing a deep transformation.
The eastern flank and the Baltic dimension. The second most frequent destination was Lithuania — three personal visits, including participation in the opening of the Lithuanian section of Via Baltica and the commemoration of the 163rd anniversary of the outbreak of the January Uprising. Activity in the Baltic direction is complemented by visits to Estonia and Latvia, where the president also met with Polish soldiers stationed as part of a NATO mission. Phone calls with the presidents of Bulgaria and Moldova expand the map of contacts to include countries for which NATO’s eastern flank constitutes a direct security challenge. This direction of activity builds an image of a president aware of Poland’s role as a pillar of security in the region.
Rebuilding the Visegrad Group format. Nawrocki consistently invests in relations with the closest neighbors: an official visit to Slovakia, a visit to the Czech Republic combined with a meeting with Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, and finally the V4 presidents’ summit in Budapest in December 2025. This sequence suggests an attempt to reactivate the Visegrad format as a space for coordinating the positions of Central European countries — a format that has lost its significance in recent years.
Key European capitals. The calendar of visits also includes one meeting each in Berlin, Paris, Rome, and London — thus in the capitals of Europe’s four largest economies. The visit to Italy had a special dimension: in addition to talks with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella, Nawrocki held an audience with Pope Leo XIV. The systematic nature of these visits — spread between September and January — indicates a planned and consistent building of relations with major European partners.
The picture that emerges from the first six months of Karol Nawrocki’s presidency is a foreign policy based on concentric circles: from the strategic transatlantic ally, through the immediate neighborhood and the eastern flank, to the key capitals of the European Union. Consistency in the selection of destinations and conversation partners is visible. This is a good starting point for further building Poland’s position in the international arena — both in the dimension of security and European policy.
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