{"id":214239,"date":"2025-11-06T12:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=214239"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:53:17","slug":"croatia-brings-back-mandatory-military-conscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/croatia-brings-back-mandatory-military-conscription\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia Brings Back Mandatory Military Conscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia\u2019s parliament has voted to reinstate compulsory military service after 17 years. The Balkan country abolished the draft in 2008 when it shifted to a fully professional army. According to the country\u2019s defence minister, Croatia is seeing a rise \u201c<em>in various types of threats.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-214240\" src=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1-17-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1-17-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1-17.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The move comes as other NATO and EU members have been reviving conscription and boosting military budgets, citing \u201c<em>Russia\u2019s aggression<\/em>\u201d in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new law, around 4,000 recruits will be called up each year in five groups for two months of basic training at military facilities across Croatia, state broadcaster <em>HRT<\/em> reported. The program \u2013 estimated to cost \u20ac23.7 million annually \u2013 will begin in early 2026. Participants will receive around \u20ac1,100 per month, plus travel and leave expenses, and credited work experience.<\/p>\n<p>Croatia is \u201c<em>seeing a rise in various types of threats that demand swift and effective action from the broader community<\/em>,\u201d Defence Minister Ivan Anusic stated, as cited by <em>AFP<\/em>. In June, he explained that the decision to reinstate conscription was driven by \u201c<em>modified global geopolitical and security circumstances, increasingly frequent climate change, natural disasters and similar challenges<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Croatia joins a growing list of NATO and EU countries reviving or expanding conscription. Sweden brought back the draft in 2017 and plans to raise the reservist age limit. Latvia and Lithuania have reinstated service, while Estonia and Finland have increased their annual recruitment. Poland has also debated similar measures.<\/p>\n<p>Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Western officials have claimed that Russia could threaten EU states, prompting a military buildup across the bloc. European NATO members agreed to boost armed forces spending to up to 5% of GDP, citing the alleged \u201c<em>Russian threat<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has repeatedly dismissed allegations of hostile intent toward Western nations as \u201c<em>nonsense<\/em>\u201d and fearmongering, condemning what it describes as the West\u2019s \u201c<em>reckless militarization<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>yogaesoteric<br \/>\nNovember 6, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia\u2019s parliament has voted to reinstate compulsory military service after 17 years. The Balkan country abolished the draft in 2008 when it shifted to a fully professional army. According to the country\u2019s defence minister, Croatia is seeing a rise \u201cin various types of threats.\u201d The move comes as other NATO and EU members have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censored-news-military-5127-en-censored-sensational-news-3480-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214243,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214239\/revisions\/214243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}