Welt am Sonntag: the FRG is considering options for compulsory military service

German authorities are considering options for a return to compulsory military service.

 

This is reported by the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, RIA Novosti reports.

According to the newspaper, the head of the German Defence Ministry Boris Pistorius “will make public the relevant proposal no later than the beginning of June”.

“Last week at a meeting of the leadership of the organisation in Osnabrück, he was presented with the first concepts,” the material says.

Earlier Pistorius said that most of the soldiers of the Bundeswehr by 2025 will be transferred under NATO command.