Issued on: 07/04/2026 - 12:10
Germany's armed forces are working on clarifying a provision in a recently updated military service law that requires fighting-age men to gain permission to leave the country for more than three months, the defence ministry said. The law went into effect in January, but the requirement - which theoretically affects millions of men between the ages of 17 and 45 in the European Union's most populous country - had gone mostly unnoticed until a local newspaper report highlighted it on Friday.
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