Overview

• The federal cabinet has approved a draft law that creates youth registration and a volunteer-first service model with a Bundestag-authorized option to introduce conscription if recruitment goals are missed.
• BSW in Thuringia supports a call from Brandenburg’s BSW for young people to object to the transfer of their registry data to the armed forces.
• Brandenburg’s BSW published a template stating that local offices automatically send data on youths nearing adulthood to the Bundeswehr and noting that the Federal Registration Act allows objections to this transfer.
• BSW politician Anke Wirsing called any return to compulsory service a security-policy wrong path and promoted voluntary civilian service in care, disaster relief and social work.
• After BSW warned of conscription through the back door, the SPD cautioned the party against what it described as disparaging polemics.