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  • This house believes that London should secede from the UK

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    The year is 2029. The Reform Party has won a majority in the House of Commons, with the vast majority of seats outside London (see map: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OvaTDnTovIjKHdZeh4K0pcgjhPqlnHxp/view?usp=sharing, source: Electoral Calculus).

    Imperial Intervarsity 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-07-26

  • This house, as president Vučić, would allow project Jadar to be realised.

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    "Project Jadar is a lithium mining project set to be realised in western Serbia by multinational British-Australian company Rio Tinto. The Serbian government revoked licences for this project in January 2022 after a set of long environmental protests. Two years later, in 2024, the Serbian president stated that the government wants to hold further talks with Rio Tinto. On the 4th June 2025, the European Commission recognised project Jadar as one among 13 new strategic projects related to critical raw materials in third countries."

    Imperial Intervarsity 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-07-26

  • This House believes that the EU and US should institute heavy sanctions on Rosatom

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    Rosatom is the Russian state nuclear energy company. Rosatom possesses about 44% of the world's uranium enrichment capacities, and exports enriched uranium to countries all over the world alongside new-build nuclear reactors and reactor components. Last year the European Union imported a quarter of the enriched uranium it needed from Russia. Rosatom is largely unsanctioned.

    Ottawa Open 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-07-19

  • This house supports the adoption of the 'Flexicurity Model' of employment across Europe.

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    The 'Flexicurity model' is the Danish labour market model. It combines easy hiring and firing for employers with social protections for workers. Under this model employers can hire and fire at will. Employees who voluntarily join and pay a subscription fee to an unemployment insurance fund can receive upto two years of unemployment benefits.

    Glasgow Summer Cup 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-07-19

  • This House Believes That Portugal should prioritize supply-side interventions over demand-side interventions to combat the housing crisis.

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    Supply driven interventions in the housing market are interventions aimed to increase the supply of housing and they include easing and incentivising private construction, easing zoning restrictions, easing the restoration of old and abandoned housing and investing in public housing. Demand side interventions in the housing market are interventions that aim to decrease demand for housing and they include curbing foreign or tourist real estate demand through greater restrictions on short-term rentals (e.g. increased taxation or area-based caps), removing tax benefits for foreign remote workers, and capping multiple property ownership of land and residential properties.

    International Debate Camp 2025 · Rodada 3 · 2025-07-19

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of the EU to actively support the student movement in Serbia

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    Student-led protests in Serbia began in November 2024 after a deadly canopee collapse in Novi Sad killed 16 people, leading to university blockades and demands for greater transparency and recently general elections. Serbia has been governed by Aleksandar Vučić and the SNS party for over a decade, during which the EU has provided significant political and financial support.

    Split Open 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-07-19

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of the EU to actively support the student movement in Serbia

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    Student-led protests in Serbia began in November 2024 after a deadly canopee collapse in Novi Sad killed 16 people, leading to university blockades and demands for greater transparency and recently general elections. Serbia has been governed by Aleksandar Vučić and the SNS party for over a decade, during which the EU has provided significant political and financial support.

    Split Open 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-07-19

  • This house would ban public performances by ex-Yugoslav artists whose music predominantly promotes nationalism and ethnic conflict

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    In the Balkans, certain musicians, such as Marko Perković Thompson in Croatia and Baja Mali Knindža in Serbia, are known for songs that celebrate nationalist narratives, sometimes referencing historical conflicts or glorifying war crimes.

    Split Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-07-19

  • This house would ban public performances by ex-Yugoslav artists whose music predominantly promotes nationalism and ethnic conflict

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    In the Balkans, certain musicians, such as Marko Perković Thompson in Croatia and Baja Mali Knindža in Serbia, are known for songs that celebrate nationalist narratives, sometimes referencing historical conflicts or glorifying war crimes.

    Split Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-07-19

  • The council supports the tightening of border controls by Schengen Area member states.

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    The Schengen Borders Code (SBC) allows Member States to temporarily reintroduce border controls at internal borders in the event of a serious threat to public policy or internal security. The reintroduction of border controls at internal borders should be applied in exceptional situations with due regard to the principle of proportionality: the level of tightening should be proportional to the threat faced. Recently, Germany tightened its border controls, including against fellow residents of the Schengen Area, in the eastern and southern parts.

    Lomba Debat Bahasa Indonesia 2024 · Round 4 · 2025-07-10

  • As the British government, this Council regrets the Commonwealth country.

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    The Commonwealth of Nations is an organization consisting mostly of countries that were former British colonies. This organization was established to strengthen cooperation in the fields of politics, economics, education, and culture among its members. Currently, there are 56 member countries in the Commonwealth, including major countries such as Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, and Malaysia. The Commonwealth is regarded as a symbol of unity and cooperation among its member countries. However, opinions on the role and relevance of this organization in the modern era vary. Some see it as an important platform for fostering trade and diplomatic relations. On the other hand, the organization also reflects the long history of relations between Britain and its former colonial territories.

    FIPA 2024 · Semifinals · 2025-07-09

  • This house, As The Cambridge Union, W allow its members to vote to reject the speaker from coming to campus after a speaker has been invited.

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    The Cambridge Union is a historic debating society in Cambridge University. The Union has heavily championed free speech and emphasised cultivating a diverse environment for all expressions of thought. Over the years it has invited numerous speakers from various backgrounds.This includes UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Ronald Reagan, African-American activist James Baldwin, Right-wing populist media personality Charlie Kirk and left-wing political commentator Hasan Piker.

    Curtin Interschool Debate Competition 2025 · Finals-Junior · 2025-07-07

  • This house would release this information to the public

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    You are a trusted priest in the Vatican currently hearing confession from the Pope. The Pope has just confessed to you that he has lost his faith for some time now and no longer believes in God.

    Diliman Debate Open 2025 · Schools Finals · 2025-07-05

  • This House, as the Ottoman Empire, would not have implemented the Tanzimat.

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    Tanzimat is the name given to a series of institutional reforms in the Ottoman Empire starting in 1839, aiming to modernize it and protect it from the military and economic pressure exerted by European countries, as well as to prevent its decentralization. The Tanzimat marked a shift away from a theocratic structure to introduce secularization, establish formal equality among its subjects, create a Western-style education system, and make massive investments in road infrastructure. However, the reforms also ended up worsening the fragmentation of the Empire, exacerbating ethnic tensions in the Balkans, and burdening the Ottomans with foreign debts.

    XI Torneio Temático de Debates · Semifinais · 2025-07-04