Five years after the refugee crisis, our city of Salzgitter is still facing enormous challenges due to the ongoing integration of around 6,500 refugees currently living in Salzgitter. Since 2017, the city of Salzgitter and the state of Lower Saxony have worked closely together to take the appropriate and necessary measures to stabilize the endangered social peace in Salzgitter. The associated ban on the influx of recognized refugees, which the state government issued for Salzgitter on 7 October 2017 on my initiative, was unavoidable and meant that the focus in Salzgitter was once again able to focus more on getting people who had already immigrated in previous years into nurseries, schools and training and work structures, as well as addressing the needs of the locals. In Salzgitter, we focus on the entire urban society, regardless of origin, age and gender. This has also been recognized by the Salzgitter City Council. This particularly challenging situation has not changed in 2020. Integration is a long-term task that requires a great deal of patience and commitment. This is also underlined by the state government's decision last year to grant our city, which is struggling with multiple problems, structural aid amounting to 50 million euros. I had to fight hard for this together with MP Stefan Klein and the other local members of the state parliament. Our main task in Salzgitter continues to be to fully integrate the refugees who have already arrived in the years 2015 to 2017 and are living here permanently into our urban society, to create the necessary framework conditions and to keep an eye on the needs of all Salzgitter residents. This ongoing task demands everything from all of us and can only succeed if we have the necessary financial and human resources available and the immigration ban for recognized refugees that applies to Salzgitter is continued. Anything else would be irresponsible towards the people living here - both locals and those who have already moved here. Salzgitter has been making a humanitarian contribution for years like no other city in Lower Saxony. In addition to humanitarian aid from Europe, people in war and crisis zones need peace, freedom and a future in their countries of origin. This is where Europe, Turkey, the USA and Russia are politically challenged to finally end the war, stabilize the crisis regions on the ground and provide sustainable development aid.