in the army government is considering alleged suspension of conscription in the Ministry of Defence, there is obviously thinking to suspend conscription and reduce the number of soldiers from the current 254,000 to around 150,000.
The report according to several newspapers, citing army or Koalitionskreise. The management of the Defence Ministry was examining the suspension and assume that, more than 400 million euros in the year could be saved, we read in the "Bild"-Zeitung. According to the report of the same publishing house published "Hamburger Evening Gazette" is a concept at the cabinet meeting on Sunday and Monday will be examined at the Federal Chancellery. Similar reports the "Stuttgarter Zeitung. [Caption: A newly confiscated conscripts for outfitting. Due to the suspension of conscription, the government reportedly saving millions. ] "No thought control but no decisions" A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Defence wanted to, according to the "Evening Gazette" neither confirm nor deny the information. "In preparation for the cabinet meeting will be at the moment different scenarios calculated. It is no thought control, but still no decisions," he said Zeitung.Erst recently, the Federal Cabinet has decided on a reduction of compulsory military service from nine to six months. Without giving details, Guttenberg had sworn, the army commander at a meeting in Hamburg already in the past week on hard cuts in contract, scope and structure.
