Defence: here is the Crosetto reform. Italia plays the reserve card

Unless otherwise specified, the provisions applicable to volunteers on fixed-term contracts shall apply, insofar as they are compatible, to enlisted personnel in the operational reserve who are recalled to active duty.

Members of the operational reserve called up for periodic training activities shall be paid a daily allowance of €130, net of tax, for each day of active service rendered. This remuneration cannot be combined with the financial entitlements provided for service performed abroad, even if temporary or occasional, without prejudice to the right to receive the more favourable remuneration.

In order to enhance the operational capability of the national armed forces, a specialist voluntary reserve is hereby established, with the aim of ensuring an adequate pool of personnel possessing specific professional skills, capable of supporting and complementing the Armed Forces and the Single Corps of Military Health Services, even in peacetime. The specialist voluntary reserve consists of reserve officers, warrant officers, sergeants and non-commissioned officers who have been conferred a rank. Personnel may be recalled to service, upon request, to meet specific requirements of the Armed Forces to which they belong or of the Single Military Health Corps, within the limits of the annual quotas.

The bill provides that, in order to create a pool of personnel based throughout the country who can be rapidly deployed to support the operational requirements of the Armed Forces in connection with the recruitment process, including support for the police forces, emergency management and disaster response, rescue and assistance, a territorial reserve is hereby established. The Territorial Reserve is made up of Territorial Reserve volunteers. To take part in the selection procedures for the recruitment of Territorial Reserve volunteers, candidates must be aged between twenty-five and thirty-five years old and hold a lower secondary school certificate.

Successful candidates in the selection process are admitted to a fixed-term service of twelve months as a private in the Italian Army, a second-class seaman in the Italian Navy, or an airman in the Air Force, and are available, within the national territory, for assignment to commands, bodies, units and formations located in the geographical area or region of enlistment, without prejudice to the possibility of deployment, training and instruction outside the geographical area or region of assignment. The procedures for recruiting Territorial Reserve volunteers are governed by a decree of the Minister of Defence. Territorial Reserve volunteers undergo the training programme established by their respective Armed Force, the duration of which shall not be less than thirty days.