Has Merkel regretted opening doors to refugees?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said today that she does not regret the decision she made in 2015 to open the country's borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees.

In an interview with the newspaper Welt am Sontag, Merkel denied that she had made mistakes in her politics for open doors, even though the arrival of a million refugees in Germany in the last two years from Syria and Iraq opened deep disagreements in her conservative party and reduced her support.

I was going to make all the important decisions in 2015 again,” said Merkel.

She has said that her decisions were based on humanitarian and political views.

The “was an extraordinary situation and I made the decisions based on what I thought was right from a humanitarian and political point of view,” she added.