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November 28, 2025 31 secs
France is reintroducing voluntary youth military service for 18 and 19-year-olds in response to growing Russian threats against Europe. President Macron announced the 10-month programme will begin next year and scale up to 50,000 volunteers annually within a decade. Conscription was previously phased out in France in 1996.

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Voluntary youth military service has been brought back in France
to prepare for the growing threat of Russia against Europe.
Conscription was phased out in nineteen ninety six, but President
Maccron says his country needs to mobilize to defend itself.
Men and women aged eighteen and nineteen can sign up
to the ten month scheme from next year. It'll be

(00:25):
scaled up to fifty thousand volunteers each year within the
next decades.
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