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  • This house, as the player, would sign for Chelsea.

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    You are an 18-year-old forward for FC Barcelona, highly valued in the reserve team (Barcelona B) and have even debuted with the main team. With your contract about to expire, you are faced with two options: renewing with FC Barcelona, which has already offered you a contract, or accepting the more lucrative offer from Chelsea FC, one of the richest clubs in the world, where young stars like Cole Palmer have been flourishing, but which has been in decline for several years and unable to qualify for the Champions League.

    PreCMUDE PUCP 2024 · Ronda 1 · 2024-07-07

  • This house believes that decisions by Kosovar Government bring more harm than good to Kosovo*

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    The Government of semi-recognized Republic of Kosovo*, led by PM Albin Kurti, has recently passed multiple decisions aimed againt the minority Serbian population, including, but not limited to: denying the creation of the Community of Serbian Municipalities, banning the use of Serbian Dinar, disallowing Serbian goods to enter Kosovo, banning Serbian licence plates on vehicles.

    Split Open 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-07-06

  • This chamber opposes the impoverishment of Polish politics.

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    Pauperization is a phenomenon that involves simplifying a certain area of life to make it more accessible to the masses, regardless of their prior interest in the subject or general knowledge. For the purposes of this debate, pauperization of politics refers to the significant simplification and popularization of political content, which manifests primarily on social media. This includes the popularization of politicians' activities on TikTok in the form of humorous recordings, posting political memes, creating highlights of parliamentary sessions showcasing the funniest moments, etc.

    Szkoła Debatuje: Zakład 24' · Round 5 · 2024-07-05

  • That we support the proposed expansion of the public interest test.

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    When a business in the UK is subject to a foreign takeover, the takeover must be approved by the government using the 'public interest test'. The current public interest test takes into account national security, diversity of media ownership, and the stability of the financial sector. There has been a proposal to expand the public interest test to also take into account effects on sustainability, jobs and the broader health of the economy.

    Jakarta Australasian Intervarsity Debate Championships 2024 · Octofinals · 2024-07-01

  • This house believes that mainstream European political parties should abandon the strategy of the “cordon sanitaire” for dealing with the rise of the far-right

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    The strategy of the “cordon sanitaire” involves all major political parties agreeing to refuse cooperating with far right political parties. Some Cordon Sanitaires that currently exist are in Germany on the federal level against the AFD, in Portugal against Chega, in the European Parliament against the ID Group, and in France against the Front National. Cordon Sanitaires against the Netherlands’s PVV, Sweden’s Sweden Democrats, and Estonia’s Conservative People’s Party have been broken recently with their far right parties joining broad right wing coalitions led by the center-right.

    Queen's WSDC 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-06-29

  • This House Prefers that the Eastern bloc countries had formed their own Union instead of joining the European Union (EU)

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    In 2004, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia joined the European Union (EU), followed by Bulgaria and Romania in 2007, and Croatia in 2013. For the purposes of this debate, the above countries are 'the Eastern bloc'. Serbia, Bosnia, and Northern Macedonia, along with other countries, are not currently part of the EU, but are aspiring to join the EU.

    Everest International WSDC 2024 · Octofinals · 2024-06-21

  • This house prefers the confiscation approach to the reinvestment approach

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    Approximately €190Bn of Russian-owned foreign reserves currently sit in European Union (EU) banks. There are two potential approaches for the use of these assets. The confiscation approach, backed by the United States, would mean the totality of these reserves would be liquidated and given to the Ukrainian government. The reinvestment approach, backed by the EU, would have the same banks reinvest this money and give the profits, approximately €3Bn per year, to the Ukrainian government.

    Uhuru Worlds 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-06-21

  • This house, as a reasonably experienced politician in Romania, would run independently.

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    The current Romanian government is majoritarily made up of the two main historical parties, PNL (centre right) and PSD (center left) that form a cartel and work on the basis of clientelist networks and have several corruption and plagiarism scandals. In opposition there is a far right party (AUR) and a formerly anti-system neoliberal party (USR). Based on the recent European and local elections, AUR is likely to increase its share of votes and USR is likely to decrease its share of votes in the upcoming parliamentary election. The mayor of Bucharest has just won a second mandate as an independent candidate. One out of the 33 selected MEPs has also run as an independent candidate.

    Zagreb Pre-EUDC 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-06-15

  • "We believe that the EU should abolish the CAP system."

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    The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a set of policies introduced by the European Union (EU), formerly the European Economic Community (EEC), following World War II to ensure food supply, provide stable income for farming families, and stimulate the rural economy for the collective benefit of Europe—a resource-scarce continent heavily dependent on agricultural imports. CAP has evolved into a specific welfare system characterized by subsidies and the protection of European agriculture from foreign competition. Subsidy payments are primarily based on farm size, which means the largest farms receive the majority of the subsidy funds. For decades, CAP has been one of the largest budget items of the EU. Over 70% of this money is distributed as direct payments to farmers. However, agriculture represents a very small sector in the EU economy, accounting for approximately 1.4% of the EU's GDP and no more than 5% of the GDP of any of the 27 member countries. Meanwhile, the environmental impact of European agriculture is disproportionate to its economic contribution.

    Saigon Debating Championship 2024 - Viet · Round 2 · 2024-06-15