Decent little story popped up today over Germany's problem in recruiting enough Germans for the Bundeswehr (German Army). ARD, public TV and Channel One, discussed the topic to some degree.....worth a read.
Recruitment extending out to the 27 other members of the EU? Yes. Expectations? No one really can cite numbers. The Germans seem to think Poles, Italians and Romanians will sign up.
The problem here is that language requirements will come up (read, write, and speak) and it'll surprise me if you get more than a hundred folks a year from the 26 of the 27 other states. Austria? Well....this might turn into an interesting scenario.
They'd easily fill the language requirements, but some Germans seem to remember the luck back in August 1914, when a young Austrian working in Munich.....signed up to the German Army. That episode didn't go well, and I suspect this will be brought up eventually as a major potential problem.
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