“Threats Are Rising”: French Public Split on Macron’s Military Service Overhaul

French citizens offered sharply mixed reactions Thursday after President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a new voluntary military service plan aimed at strengthening national readiness amid rising geopolitical tensions. From patriotic pride to deep skepticism, Parisians debated whether voluntary service is enough, with some calling for mandatory conscription and others warning that modern warfare requires far more than symbolic participation. The plan is intended to overhaul the struggling national youth service program and expand France’s reservist force by 2030.

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00:00My ancestors were fighting for this country.

00:02They lived here. They fought the war.

00:05It had to be proud.

00:07And frankly, if we were confronted with the war,

00:13I would.

00:15But after, there are people to defend France.

00:18Because tomorrow, if there is a war,

00:20who will defend France?

00:21But in this case,

00:23we had to put it in the mœurs for a long time

00:25and not brusquing people the day or the day.

00:27I think it's a good thing, yes.

00:31Because rather than being in the streets,

00:34I think it's good.

00:38After, I don't know what they think about it.

00:42I don't think there will be a lot of volunteers like that.

00:45If tomorrow, there will happen a real war

00:48against another country,

00:49I think there will be people who will move.

00:51But there, like that,

00:53I don't think about it.

00:55I don't think that people will be motivated

00:58to pass their military service.

01:00We are so calm.

01:03We are maybe used to it like that

01:05that we don't see the war coming.

01:07I don't see it coming.

01:09Maybe people will see it more than us.

01:12I don't know.

01:14I don't think about it.

01:15Because I think that the president,

01:17they will do something

01:19before they arrive on the territory.

01:22Well, I think it's not bad.

01:25In other words,

01:26it's on the basis of the volunteers.

01:28It doesn't obliges people to do it.

01:29Those who don't want to do it

01:30or who don't feel it,

01:31it's fine.

01:32And those who want to do it,

01:33those who want to do it,

01:34those who want to do it,

01:35those who want to do it,

01:36those who want to do it,

01:37that can be a way to do it.

01:39I think it's not bad.

01:41In fact,

01:43it's a pretty interesting position,

01:45I think.

01:46In the way,

01:47the attack of military service

01:48was done in a very precise moment,

01:50in the moment,

01:51when the external burden

01:54was decreased.

01:56Or,

01:57now,

01:58we see that the burden

01:59has increased.

02:00So,

02:01to be in the position

02:02where it was before,

02:03to be able to take the dividends

02:05of the war,

02:06now,

02:07it doesn't work.

02:08So,

02:09we see that.

02:12I would have to do it,

02:13I think.

02:14I wouldn't say why,

02:16but I think it's important.

02:18It can bring value

02:19that we don't have

02:21in France.

02:23So,

02:24I don't say that

02:25it's something easy.

02:27I don't say that I would be able

02:28to get to the end,

02:29but in any case,

02:30to try it,

02:31why not?

02:32It would be worth it.

02:34After,

02:35the choice of a voluntary service

02:37voluntary,

02:38for young people,

02:39it's very interesting.

02:40But,

02:41we know that

02:42to form a soldier

02:43who will be able

02:44to fight

02:45in a current environment,

02:46that's to say

02:47with ultra-perfectionated weapons,

02:49it takes time,

02:51it takes a lot of money.

02:52So,

02:53I think that

02:54it's a first level,

02:56but in reality,

02:57it would have to increase

02:58the army budget

02:59and develop other types

03:00of weapons,

03:01rather than

03:02not necessarily

03:03to be able

03:04to be able

03:05for young people

03:06who are not

03:07necessarily

03:08the most

03:09the most able

03:10to do it.

03:11Ah,

03:12it's a tort,

03:13it's necessary.

03:14Why?

03:15Well,

03:16it's better,

03:17because everyone

03:18will say no,

03:19they don't want to do it,

03:20they don't want to do it,

03:21they don't want to do it.

03:22But,

03:23as it's necessary

03:24to give our time

03:25to us,

03:26it's all,

03:27they do their service,

03:28it's normal

03:29for a year.

03:30It's normal

03:31for their country.

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