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Germany’s Finance Minister Christian Lindner said he is against reintroducing compulsory military service to strengthen the nation’s army, the Bundeswehr. “The economic costs of compulsory military service would be very high in view of the labour shortage in an ageing society. I am also not convinced by drafting entire cohorts who are then not called up at all,” Lindner told dpa. He instead called for a stronger military reserve for the Bundeswehr. Defence Minister Boris Pistorius is currently having models of compulsory military service examined and has taken a look at the practice in Scandin…

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