France will bring back national service to bolster the country's armed forces as President Macron wants to "prepare the nation for growing threats".

The President's Office confirmed the need following announcements that would give young French people an option for military service, earlier this year.

Now a new national service plan has been brought in across the country, with Macron telling a french radio station: "The day that you send a signal of weakness to Russia — which for 10 years has made a strategic choice to become an imperial power again, that’s to say advance wherever we are weak — well, it will continue to advance."

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