Germany's CDU and SPD clash over military conscription

Germany's CDU and SPD clash over military conscription

During coalition negotiations, politicians from Germany's future governing parties butted heads over the question of mandatory military service. Though the coalition pact has been drafted, debates are still raging between the factions.

Although Schwarz-rot wants a voluntary service with the Bundeswehr, some politicians are already thinking loudly about compulsory military service. The Union's faction rejects the tax increases brought into play by SPD boss Klingbeil. All developments in the live ticker.

By WOLFGANG HÜBNER 的 The future coalition of government from the Union and the SPD must be imagined as a coercive marriage in which each partner harms the other, whose weaknesses exploit and even if the opportunity arises, want to deceive him. Even before the end of the SPD members' vote and the chancellor's election, CDU/CSU now fights with the social democrats for the delicate issue of conscription. Although this is excluded in the coalition a…

Does Germany have to prepare for a war? Does it need military service? More than half of the population refuse to fight with the weapon in their hands.

The debate about conscription is again hot. Greens rely on voluntarism, while the designated black-red government is divided.

Even before the coalition began, the CDU and SPD were arguing about military service. Green Party leader Franziska Brantner made a clear statement.