{"id":602810,"date":"2025-11-30T06:27:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602810\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T06:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:27:25","slug":"macrons-call-to-arms-france-falls-in-line-to-ask-its-young-to-face-russian-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/602810\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron\u2019s call to arms: France falls in line to ask its young to face Russian threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">In his speech to military personnel on Thursday, Macron suggested France is ideally seeking 18 and 19-year-olds, who would be paid to sign up for 10 months but would not be deployed abroad. The \u20ac2bn programme will be rolled out gradually, with a target of 3,000 volunteers in the first year and 10,000 a year by 2030 increasing France\u2019s military forces to around 210,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his speech to military personnel on Thursday, Macron suggested France is ideally seeking 18 and 19-year-olds, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2993,1699,36,2821,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-602810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-defence","9":"tag-european-union","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-nato","12":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115637232965747153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602810","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=602810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}