Getting ready to fight back? France introduces military service as Russian threat looms
Update: 2025-11-27
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French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France is to reintroduce a national military service. Young people will be taken into the military, trained for a period of around a year and paid €800 a month. The programme will be open to all, and voluntary.
Macron made this historic announcement at an army barracks in the Isère region, surrounded by young people already in uniform. The reason for this reintroduction of military service, according to the French president, is clear: the growing threat from Russia.
Is Macron's decision a necessary one, or a worrying step towards sending France's youth to fight?
Produced by Mark Owen, Rebecca Gnignati, Charles Wente, Ilayda Habip & Jean-Vincent Russo
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