France announces new military service plans weeks after Germany.<\/p>\n
France says it will reintroduce a form of voluntary military service in response to growing tensions with Russia.<\/p>\n
The announcement comes weeks after Germany said it plans to assess young people\u2019s suitability for military duty.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has forced European states to reassess their defence. So, could conscription return?<\/p>\n
Presenter:<\/strong> Dareen Abughaida<\/p>\n Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n Jacques Reland \u2013 Senior research fellow in European affairs<\/p>\n Paul Beaver \u2013 Former soldier and defence analyst<\/p>\n Peter Nielsen \u2013 Former commander of NATO\u2019s Force Integration Unit in Lithuania<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" France announces new military service plans weeks after Germany. France says it will reintroduce a form of voluntary military service in response to growing tensions with Russia. The announcement comes weeks after Germany said it plans to assess young people\u2019s suitability for military duty. Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has forced European states to reassess their … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}