{"id":284375,"date":"2025-07-23T05:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284375\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T05:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:16:12","slug":"how-young-romanians-may-contribute-to-eu-rearmament-efforts-and-earn-some-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284375\/","title":{"rendered":"How young Romanians may contribute to EU rearmament efforts and earn some cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  By&amp;nbsp<b>Mihaela Barbu<\/b>&amp;nbspwith&amp;nbsp<b>Euronews Romania<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n                    Published on                 22\/07\/2025 &#8211; 21:11 GMT+2<br \/>\n                \u2022Updated<br \/>\n                                     21:12\n                                        <\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n            ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Romania is planning to create a voluntary military service to enhance its military reserve with a proposal, currently being debated in Parliament, that would enable 18 to 35-year olds to follow a four-month paid training programme. <\/p>\n<p>On finishing the training, the volunteers would have the status of reservists and those wishing to do so could become active soldiers. <\/p>\n<p>The measure was announced by Defence Minister Ionu\u021b Mo\u0219teanu and the initiative is designed to meet government concerns about the ageing profile of the current pool of reservists.<\/p>\n<p>The average age of reservists &#8220;is somewhere around 48-50 years,&#8221; Romanian defence ministry spokesperson Colonel Corneliu Pavel told Euronews Romania. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This draft law that is under approval is meant to significantly increase the number of reservists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New military commitments in Europe<\/p>\n<p>Compulsory military service, which guaranteed stable turnover of the ageing reservist pool, was suspended in Romania in 2007, after the country joined the European Union. <\/p>\n<p>According to Romanian press sources, the ministry of defence ruled out any form of reintroducing a compulsory draft. <\/p>\n<p>However, Romania&#8217;s volunteer idea tallies with the project of a full scale European rearmament and with the efforts of several other European countries that are rethinking their enlistment methods. <\/p>\n<p>The reorganisation of the military structure and the increase in the number of armed personnel is one of the keys of NATO and EU countries&#8217; current military planning. <\/p>\n<p>The Romanian draft law provides for a four-month military training, during which the young volunteers are paid as active military personnel, and at the end they also receive an allowance of almost \u20ac2,500.<\/p>\n<p>Some young people say they would be on board with the scheme, while others are more reluctant, but most believe that some form of military training of civilians should exist.<\/p>\n<p>A young woman in Bucharest told Euronews Romania that the military service could be useful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In case of war, or something else, we should know what to do,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>While a young man commented: &#8220;I&#8217;d really like a little bit of extra exercise, a little bit of activity, but also more serious, I mean it&#8217;s not like you go to play with your friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Romanian defence spending in 2025 is up to 2.2% of its GDP, nevertheless, by 2032, the Black Sea country is committed to reach 3.5 % of defence spending and 1.5% in indirect investments connected to security. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&amp;nbspMihaela Barbu&amp;nbspwith&amp;nbspEuronews Romania Published on 22\/07\/2025 &#8211; 21:11 GMT+2 \u2022Updated 21:12 ADVERTISEMENT Romania is planning to create a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[10242,2000,299,5187,1699,1438,106550],"class_list":{"0":"post-284375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-black-sea","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-romania","14":"tag-romania-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114900853282997581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}