A number of Ukrainian refugees are gaming the system and exploiting the German welfare state to obtain benefits before traveling back to their homeland, according to CDU Chairman Friedrich Merz.

The opposition leader spoke of “a larger number” who are now “taking advantage of this system.”

“We are now experiencing social tourism from these refugees ‐ to Germany, back to Ukraine, to Germany, back to Ukraine,” he told Bild.

Leaders of the parties in Germany’s federal coalition accused Merz of a lack of solidarity with Ukraine, and refused to recognize the “social tourism” he referred to, instead describing their actions as “people fleeing this terrible war of aggression.”

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