Overview
- All 18-year-olds will receive questionnaires next year to assess interest and suitability, with responses mandatory for men.
- Conscription medical examinations will begin with those born in 2008, scaling up to call all men in a year-group for muster from summer 2027.
- Voluntary recruits are to receive €2,600 per month as part of efforts to boost enlistment.
- The government set a growth path toward roughly 260,000 active soldiers and about 200,000 reservists, up from around 180,000 currently.
- Any compulsory enlistment would require a Bundestag vote and use a lottery only as a last resort, with an earlier double-lottery concept dropped.