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The Strict Information Protection Act is obstructing Germany’s efforts to the rank of Armed Forces in Europe, its Reserve Association.
Patrick Sensberg, head of the German Armed Forces Reserve Association, says strict German and EU privacy rules mean that it cannot keep in touch with a million people who can help increase the reserve forces in the country if they want a stronger role in European defense and protection.
Sensberg says that when Germany Suspended registration in the 21st, it stopped keeping an eye on the former consistence.
“We lost their contacts,” he said in an interview with the Financial Times. “It’s crazy.”
The problem was even more complicated, Sensburg said that by the European Information Protection Act and additional rules in Germany, the memory of both the Nazi era and the Communist Democratic Republic has contributed to the culture of cautionary information around personal information.
Germany’s new Chancellor Frederich Merge has promised that his nation will play a leading role in protecting Europe from NATO and Europe from Russia’s aggression because under President Donald Trump has become even more confused about the United States alliance.
By allowing the unlimited orrow adoption for merge defense expenditure, Bundeshr’s overhul has ended anxiety over financing and officials have said that the biggest challenge of the armed forces is now.
The chief of the armed forces, Kirsten Bruwer, says that the number of professional soldiers in the late decades has to be increased from about 180,000 to 200,000.
Bruwer also said that about 20.5 reserves of the military need a crisis to protect their homeland or to provide a backup to the frontline when the frontline troops were killed or injured. It is almost today, about the dramatic growth from the image of 000,6.
The European army usually depends on the three main recruitment channels to fill the reserve forces: volunteer, former condensing and former professional soldiers.
Although Germany can draw a full-time military personnel, it has no current article-and a limited place for civilians without previous military experience.
The new government has said that it will introduce a new, voluntary form of military services, but only initially trains about 5,000 youths every year.
In an interview with Frankfurter Alljemin Jeitung at Defense Minister Boris Postorius Weekend, some ex -soldiers would need to “react” to reach the required number of reservations.
The Reservation Association represents the former National Service and represents civilian citizens that serve on the reserves as well as former professional soldiers. Sensburg said that it received $ 24 million for government funds every year to support and training ex -soldiers – and could be a prosperous reserve of potential talents.
In addition to being a 5-ped-up member, the association also has the responsibility for all 10 million people in Germany who had previously done national services or once professional soldiers.
Of these people, about 9 mm is more than 65, the reflection of the dramatic shrink of the German armed forces since the end of the cool war.
Sensberg said that the association was not in contact with the remaining 1 MN, which included about 93,000 people in Afghanistan – a group that he described as “high probability” reserve.
“If they want to serve again we don’t know how much they are physically fit.”
Member of Parliament from Sensberg, Merge’s ruling Christian Democrats, added something that if one is not ill or interested, if one quarter of 1 million agrees to serve it, it will be enough to meet the number of conservation goals.
He said it was unreasonable that the company responsible for collecting the annual television fee of Germany could contact citizens a few weeks after leaving, on the other hand he had no way to find those whose names were on the record.
The Defense Ministry has said that good contact with former troops was important for Germany, but it was also personal information protection.
“The ministry is constantly reviewing how to resume the current information protection rules – and resume military registration and observation, which we are trying as part of a new military service model,” said it.
It has been added that the soldiers who have been active service have been automatically registered since 2021.
