US EditionVoluntary or Mandatory - What Should the New Military Service Look Like?
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How should the personnel problems of the Bundeswehr be solved: with a voluntary or mandatory service? The Bundestag should discuss this at a first reading. But the Union has now postponed it. By Uli Hauck.
The Minister of Defence criticises those in the Union who are closer to him in conscription than his own partymates. One of them painted a particularly droll picture.
Contradicting Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Boris Pistorius showed confidence that the goal can be achieved through voluntary military service and the reactivation of existing reservationers.
The Union is blocking the Bundestag debate on the draft military service law. Members of the Union are calling for a tightening of Pistorius' draft and a break from the voluntary nature. Meanwhile, demands will be made according to the "voltage case" in Germany. Actually, the draft of the new military service law should have gone to the first reading in the Bundestag already on Thursday. However, the debate has now been postponed to next week. T…
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