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Germany will bring a recall to develop the Armed Forces, if the plan of volunteers is not attractive enough, he said that the country’s Defense Minister is not attractive.

Boris Pistorius said he would start a voluntary model to attract supporting young people BundeswehrVladimir Putin’s aims to double the reserve forces in response to Ukraine’s full-scale occupation.

However, if Berlin had a reserve training power of the Armed Forces or after the summer break, it will lead to such a provision in a bill to parliament.

“My goal is that the law has two rules,” he said. The last one, he would have to be activated if “numbers are not enough.”

If the voluntary reception numbers are short, the drop choice will prevent a completely new legislative process. “We don’t have time for it,” he said. “If we already have a mechanism in place, there will be no problem.”

GermanyChancellor Friedrich Merz said they wanted the country to want to play a more role in the protection of the continent in the defense of the continent.

The Merz received the rules of the Benement of Germany’s serious government debt, which allows Germany to spend undefined for defense spending after the victory of the February parliamentary elections. In response to the fears of Russian aggression, the country aims to overhaul the country’s long-term armed forces.

The greatest issue facing military planners is a shortage of personnel without any longer. Chief defense officials should expand the entry of about 80,000 professional soldiers to meet Germany’s NATO commitments in the next 10 years.

Today in the country, today it is necessary to increase the number of active reservations that can be called from about 60,000 to 200,000 to 200,000 in the crisis today.

In Germany, young people have Germany to make any military service or civil alternative by 2011 Lost connection With many past challenges that can serve as a reserved due to data protection.

Pistorius said the situation was “scandalous” because it was in an emergency, ie if we were attacked, we could not call our reservoirs because we did not have names or addresses, “he said.

He said he was trying to rebuild the reserves of 18 young people returning to 18 to complete the survey of voluntary military education and continues to reset the liability. The scheme is expected to receive 5,000 people over the year.

Merz criticized the plan of great figures in the Christian Democrats. The dispute requires immediate recognition to confront Germany’s security issues facing Europe.

However, Pistorius, the serviceman, was reported that there was no military barracks and workforce to train hundreds of thousands of young people every year.

Instead, he insisted on a voluntary model inspired by a similar system in Sweden. Germany will also develop educational facilities, and if there were a reserve, he will return to the call.

At the same time, Pistorius said: Bundeswehr, as part of NATO goals, about 183,000 people will try to hire more than 260,000 orders to about 260,000 to about 260,000.

“We must do this by improving the attractiveness, payment and other things,” he said.