She spoke on Friday after talks on security with Speaker of the Sejm (lower house) Włodzimierz Czarzasty.
She noted that Poland had long been warning about the threat from the East, and that Europe was now hearing that message.
She said the bloc was investing in security and thanked Poland for "its leadership both in the EU and in NATO."
The European Parliament, she added, had passed rules "to boost our capabilities, strengthen our defence industries and facilitate cooperation across borders."
Metsola said the Parliament was also working on the EU’s long-term budget, which she said should meet needs in energy, security and farming.
Lawmakers wanted more money to strengthen the bloc’s external borders and its eastern flank, she explained.
Metsola arrived in Poland on Thursday and met Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Karol Nawrocki.
On Friday morning she also addressed Poland’s parliament and met the Senate speaker.
She is set to receive the Jan Karski Eagle Award on behalf of the European Parliament at a ceremony in Warsaw later in the day.
The prize was established in 2000 by Karski, an emissary of the Polish Underground State who witnessed the Holocaust and later became a professor at Georgetown University.
The Sejm’s press office said Czarzasty would voice strong support for EU enlargement, including to Ukraine.
He was also expected to discuss a conference planned for May 2027 on a new European security architecture, which will bring together parliamentary speakers from NATO and EU countries, Ukraine and Moldova.
Metsola, who is from Malta, has led the European Parliament since 2022.
She is set to seek a third term as the candidate of the European People’s Party.
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Source: PAP, IAR