With the end of conscription, Germany stopped the registration of 18-year-olds for military service, leaving the country without a reliable data base on whom it could call up.

The aim of the new law is to once again have an overview of those figures: Under the model proposed, all men turning 18 - about roughly 300,000 next year - will have to fill out a digital survey on their interest in joining the army.

Young women will also be sent the survey but are not obliged to respond.

The Times of Israel added that reports appearing in Hebrew media earlier this year claimed that Netanyahu had been “attempting to keep his conversations regarding the management of the war in Gaza untraceable.”

Controversy continues to surround the beginning of the war. Hamas' Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was reportedly successful in part due to intelligence failures blamed on Netanyahu and others. Israeli officials also issued the Hannibal Directive on 7 October, authorizing the military to kill Israeli civilians to prevent them from being taken captive in Gaza by Hamas fighters.

The military unleashed attack helicopters, drones, and tanks to fire missiles, high-caliber bullets, and shells at houses in the settlements (kibbutzim) and at the Nova music festival, killing hundreds of Hamas fighters, Israeli soldiers, and civilians alike.

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Albanese said she was "in shock" when she learned Quebec had opened a trade office in Tel Aviv in June, even as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continued to rage and tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians had been killed.

"Silence, or worse, the justification on the part of a small, but influential number of states, continued to allow and nurture the arrogance that is at the origins of Israeli behaviour today, as we talk," she said.

"It is extremely troubling to see countries which are members of the United Nations pontificate, call into question and cloud the meaning of international law and dehumanizing the victims of these past 12 months."

The Liberal government has been under intense pressure from the U.S. to boost defence spending. Last year, the Liberals announced more than $30 billion in new projects, with much of that going to U.S. firms.

The EU gives one-third of its entire budget to farmers through its common agricultural policy (Cap), which hands out money based on the area of land a farmer owns rather than whether they need the support.

But strict privacy rules, weak transparency requirements and complex chains of company ownership mean little scrutiny has been possible of who gets the money. In a study commissioned by the European parliament’s budgetary control committee in 2021, researchers from the Centre for European Policy Studies (Ceps) found that it is “currently de facto impossible” to identify the largest ultimate beneficiaries of EU funding with full confidence.

Scientists have criticised "perverse incentives" in the Cap that push farmers to destroy nature. They estimate that 50%-80% of EU farming subsidies go toward animal agriculture rather than foods that would be better for the health of people and the planet.

"We need a rapid food transition for a healthier future and subsidies are the biggest economic lever for change," said Paul Behrens, a global change researcher at Leiden University, who was not involved in the study.

He said: "The inequality in the Cap is extreme and this work highlights again just how much the richest land-owners continue to get richer from subsidies. Although transparency in the Cap has improved over time, the amount of detective work needed to uncover how the public's tax money is spent is astonishing."