What Lena spoke about.

Madam President, at the beginning of this term we made a promise, a Europe that protects, and while we saw new challenges emerging we also prepared ourselves better. An important part of that other funds we’re debating right now is an increased budget supporting not only border protection and migration management, but also measures of solidarity and integration. But where funds are crucial and closer cooperation is well received we also need to be aware of the broader dimension. Last week, the last year, unfortunately proved that the European Union is, and probably will be again, faced with neighbours like Erdoğan, Lukashenko or others, neighbours that are not only questioning our way of life but that are trying to attack and destabilise the European Union as a whole, instrumentalising both the current stalemate on the pact and people already in a vulnerable situation. Our answer to that needs to be firm. Protecting our Member States under pressure, solving the stalemate, and backing the European agencies providing their support on our behalf, for a Europe that protects.