Cyprus Mail 10 September 2020 - by Peter Michael
Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides with National Guard staff at the House defence committee meeting on ThursdayDefence Minister Charalambos Petrides will brief the House defence committee on Thursday on a cabinet decision to hire soldiers to replace those conscripts who will defer their service to begin their studies in the UK.
According to reports, at Wednesday’s cabinet meeting it was decided to take funds of €667,000 from the state supplementary budget to hire approximately 200 soldiers that will take the place of conscripts deferring to begin their studies at UK universities, before a Brexit-linked fee hike takes effect in January 2021.
In their initial decision about the young men, the government said they would allow the men, who already have a place at a British university to defer their service, so they could benefit from the last year of cheaper home fees offered by the UK.
As a result, the government decided that they will need to cover approximately 80 per cent of the human resources with hired soldiers.
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