President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday announced that France will reinstate military service on a voluntary basis, citing the ...

The announcement comes more than three and a half years into Russia's full-scale invasion, with Macron and other French ...

Finland, with its 830-mile border with Russia, has never abandoned its conscription programme, which is even written into the nation’s constitution. For women in Finland it remains voluntary, but all ...

Mandatory military service is also not out of the question in a major crisis, says French President Macron, who warns that ...