Germany is to stop conscription in 2006? They are working on it, but they won't admit it. In fact, with new elections pending, and the conservatives as the likely next winners

, it gets increasingly unlikely conscription will be gone soon: some of those boneheads still are thinking in terms of 1950, or even 1898 ...
Looks like Rumania has cancelled conscription :
http://www.vienna.at/engine.aspx/pag...:vol:news-welt