defense
Merz: Coalition at military service “in the direction” unit
At the military service law, the coalition is again violent in the last few meters. The Chancellor nevertheless summons the fundamental unity of the coalition on the topic.
In the discussion about a possible reintroduction of compulsory military service, Chancellor Friedrich Merz sees “no fundamental dissent” between the coalition partners Union and the SPD. “We agree in the goal,” said the CDU chairman at a press conference with the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Berlin when asked about a journalist. “The Union faction would have liked to see it faster. But this obviously also reaches objective limits of feasibility.”
Merz: Create conditions first
The Chancellor pointed out that the training capacity is currently not yet available for reactivating the compulsory conscription exposed in 2011. The coalition agreed that it would now have to be created. But Merz also emphasized: “If we see that we do not reach the numbers we need, the next step will have to follow – starting with a weir.”
The Bundeswehr needs about 80,000 additional active soldiers. Because NATO considers an order of 260,000 to be necessary to withstand an attack, for example, Russia. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) initially relies on voluntariness when recruiting offspring for the Bundeswehr and wants to submit a draft law to the cabinet on Wednesday. If the enlargement progresses too slowly, it reserves the right to reintroduce a mandatory service.
In the draft law, concrete target variables for troop growth are not mentioned. However, representatives of the Union faction vehemently demand them. Foreign Minister Johann WadePhul therefore had a veto against the bill at the end of last week through a so -called management reservation, which he retired on Monday. Pistorius’s template now goes unchanged into the cabinet.
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WadePhul-veto “normal government action”
Merz said that WadePhul’s objection was “a very usual, normal government action”. Such “line reservations” basically exist “every week” to make improvements.
dpa
Source: Stern
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