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  • This house believes that the Dutch government should rent prison space in nearby countries over finding substitute punishments for prisoners (e.g. community service, fines, house arrests, etc.)

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    The Netherlands is currently facing an overpopulation of prisons. There are more criminals than spaces in prisons.

    Rotterdam Pre-EUDC · Round 3 · 2025-06-07

  • This House regrets "Dollarization" in non-USA nations

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    For the purpose of the debate, Dollarization occurs when a country officially adopts the US dollar as its primary currency, replacing its domestic currency. Since 2000, three Latin American countries (Ecuador, El Salvador, and Panama) have fully dollarized their economies.

    Vancouver Pre-WSDC 2025 · Open Quarterfinals · 2025-06-06

  • This House regrets "Dollarization" in non-USA nations

    Infoslide

    For the purpose of the debate, Dollarization occurs when a country officially adopts the US dollar as its primary currency, replacing its domestic currency. Since 2000, three Latin American countries (Ecuador, El Salvador, and Panama) have fully dollarized their economies.

    Vancouver Pre-WSDC 2025 · Open Quarterfinals · 2025-06-06

  • That, as the EBU, we would expel Israel from Eurovision

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    The Eurovision Song Contest is an international music competition organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), a coalition of public service broadcasters from across Europe and neighbouring regions. Participation in Eurovision is open to active EBU members, and the EBU has full discretion over which broadcasters are eligible to compete. In 2022, following public and institutional pressure, the EBU banned Russia from participating due to its invasion of Ukraine and later suspended Russian broadcasters from its membership. In recent years, several national broadcasters, including those from Ireland, Iceland, and Spain, have publicly questioned Israel’s continued participation in light of its military operations in Gaza, urging the EBU to take similar action.

    USU Pre-Australs 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-01

  • Assuming feasibility, This house would adopt a uniform global carbon pricing scheme

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    Carbon pricing curbs greenhouse gas emissions by placing a fee on emitting and offering an incentive for emitting less. In the status quo, so far, 46 countries are pricing emissions through carbon taxes or emissions trading schemes and others are considering it.

    Northern Luzon Intervarsity 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-05-31

  • This House Predicts That the end of ultra-loose monetary policies* in developed countries will do more long-term harm than good. *e.g. near-zero interest rates, quantitative easing, and yield curve control in Japan, the US, and the EU.

    Brazil Open 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-05-31

  • This house prefers a world where the Industrial Revolution had began in The East

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    The Industrial Revolution refers to a period of significant technological, economic, and social change marked by the transition from agrarian economies to industrial manufacturing (e.g: development of factories, mechanized production, and major innovations in transportation, energy, and communication) It began in Great Britain in the late 18th century and spread to parts of Europe, North America, and eventually other regions throughout the 19th century. For the purposes of this debate, (1) “The East” refers broadly to major civilizations in East, South, and Southeast Asia, including but not limited to China, Japan, Korea, and the Indian subcontinent (2) Assume that “The East” had the necessary preconditions to begin the Industrial Revolution on it’s own accord

    Northern Luzon Intervarsity 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-05-31

  • This house believes that the U.S should pay Panama significant per-capita subsidies for detaining and repatriating migrants within the Darién Gap

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    The Darién Gap is a 60-mile stretch of dense rainforest that connects Central and South America. It constitutes a crossing that takes days to traverse across challenging terrain, and is used by migrants who are seeking to travel to the U.S from Colombia and other South American states. Over the last five years, the Darién Gap has gone from a little-used crossing considered impossible, to one used by over 500K migrants annually.

    Taiwan WSDC 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-05-31

  • This house supports a "defense spending" exemption to the EU fiscal rules

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    The EU imposes fiscal rules to ensure countries maintain debt-to-GDP ratios below 60 per cent and that they do not go above 3 per cent annual deficits. For countries in breach of these thresholds, they mandate spending ceilings that countries have to adhere to or risk facing fines.

    Taiwan WSDC 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-05-31

  • This house as Prigozhin regrets their decision in staging the mutiny.

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    The wagner group is a Russian state funded paramilitary group composed of mercenaries hired to carry out military operation. They are led by Yevgeny Prigozhin and have been instrumental in Russia’s invasion in Ukraine. Wagner, was previously given support by Putin, and specialized operations under the interest of Russia. Recently, Wagner has mounted a mutiny against Putin. The mutiny was eventually stopped by a deal brokered by Lukashenko the President of Belarus, Wagner now resides in the Belarus area.

    Xavier Cup 11 · Semifinals · 2025-05-25

  • This house would prohibit export bans and restrictions on essential goods

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    Last month, India banned the export of non-basmati white rice in an effort to ease rising domestic prices of rice in India. The ban prompted the global supply to plummet and prices to rise having accounted for 70% of the global trade on white rice.

    Xavier Cup 11 · Semifinals · 2025-05-25

  • This house believes that it is in the interests of the Arctic Council to overturn its refusal to cooperate with Russia.

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    “The Arctic Council is an intergovernmental forum that was formed to enhance cooperation, coordination and interaction among Arctic States (states that border the Arctic Circle) with the active involvment of Arctic IPs and other Actic inhabitants on common Arctic matters. These matters include environmental policies, scienific research, and most recently security. The Arctic States are Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the US, and Russia. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the other 7 Arctic states refused to collaborate with Russia. Since then, both parties have conducted their own military exercises. Russia recently conducted missile tests in the Arctic.

    Xavier Cup 11 · Semifinals · 2025-05-25