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November 2016 - Issue #85
Dordogne
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France to bring back national service Gilets jaunes protests bring travel chaos nationwide - page 10
National service for all 16-year-olds will
be phased in from next year as President Macron follows through on an election pledge, but the service, lasting four weeks,
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will not now have a military focus. also much opposition, particularly from a financial point of view. Defence officials were concerned that being in charge of military service would produce limited benefit, whilst cutting into an already stretched budget. Many of the country’s army barracks have either been converted for other uses or knocked down over the course of the last decade and the cost of reintroducing compulsory military service had been estimated at well into the billions. As a result, the national service being introduced next year will now focus on community rather than military service and will be overseen by the education, not the defence ministry.
Dordogne to test hydrogen trains - pg 3
Calls for €1 tax on online deliveries - pg 10
France no longer defines the kilogram - pg 11
The Bugle Business Directory - pg 14-16
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a t i o n a l service is to return to France in 2019, but in a scaled-down version of the proposals first put forward by Macron during his presidential campaign. Emmanuel Macron took the country by surprise when he announced his election pledge to require all young people to spend time getting “a direct experience of military life, with its knowhow and demands”. At the time, the move was seen as an attempt to woo right-leaning voters and whilst there is a degree of political support for the return of national service, especially in the wake of increased terror attacks across Europe, there is
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