Austrians vote to keep army draft (12)

Telegraph 2013.01.20 22:38
Austria voted to retain military conscription, bucking a European trend since the end of the Cold War of scrapping the draft. An Austrian Army presentation on Austrian National Day at Heldenplatz Photo: REUTERS 8:19PM GMT 20 Jan 2013 Some 60 per cent preferred a system that sees 22,000 men drafted into six months of military service every year over a volunteer-only army, preliminary referendum results showed.
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