Earlier, a German politician in an interview with Bild TV channel said that Ukrainian refugees are constantly moving between Ukraine and Germany.
He called such trips "social tourism".
After that, Merz was criticized.
“I regret the use of the words ‘social tourism’.
This was an incorrect description of the problem observed in individual cases, ”RIA Novosti quotes a message from the politician on social networks.
Merz specified that he wanted to draw attention to the problem of "lack of registration of refugees."
Earlier, a resident of the UK, Clara Maguire, spoke about her personal experience of accepting refugees from Ukraine, calling it a “catastrophe”.