Spd Defuses Conflict over Conscription.
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The new NATO targets for the Bundeswehr provide 80,000 more soldiers. However, the SPD imposes shackles on its defence minister in the case of the military commitment. The Bundeswehrverband criticizes the party congress vote and strongly advises to set the course for barracks construction already.
The social democrats want to allow mandatory elements in a law only if "all measures for voluntary increase have been exhausted. Thus, the party achieves a compromise between Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius and the Jusos.
The SPD has set itself a course for the future military model and a possible compulsory military service – but at the same time it has found a very interpretative formula for mandatory convocations. At the party congress of the Social Democrats in Berlin this weekend, practically leading the opposing tendencies in the party, the Juso chairman Philipp Türmer and defense minister Boris Pistorius dealt with a compromise, which then received the app…
After hours of discussions, the Jusos agreed with Boris Pistorius. Previously, there had been a dispute over a draft law on the reintroduction of compulsory military service.
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