📌 Compulsory military service rises across Europe amid security concerns
◾️ Germany plans a new system requiring all 18-year-old men to fill out a suitability survey
◾️ Denmark will expand compulsory service in 2025 to include women
◾️ Croatia reinstated conscription after 17 years
◾️ Sweden brought back service in 2017 after an 8-year break
◾️ Latvia reinstated conscription in 2023
◾️ Lithuania reinstated it in 2015
◾️ France applies a 1-month national service program for youth
◾️ Norway maintains full compulsory service, open to women since 2013
📍 Debates on military capacity are now high on the political agenda across Europe
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