Euro 2011 Results and Motions

The 2011 European Universities Debating Championships ended yesterday in Galway, Ireland with University of Oxford A (Ben Woolgar & Hugh Burns) taking the trophy. They defeated University of Cambridge A, University of Durham B and Trinity College Dublin B in the grand final of the open category. Oxford teams have won 7 out of 13 Euros so far. This year's ESL prize went to University of Tel Aviv from Israel. The motions used in the second most prestigious British Parliamentary debate competition in the world are as follows.

GF: THBT the state should pay reparations to women
GF (ESL): THBT God exists

SF: THBT the West should promise preferential economic and political cooperation to Arab democracies that adopt secular constitutions

SF (ESL): THW require persons who work in the media to wait for years before running for public office or working for the government

QF: THW never fight for King and Country

QF (ESL): THW ban all EU arms companies from selling arms outside the EU

R9: THW legally require priests to report all serious crimes that they hear in confession

R8: THBT US and EU should cease all financial, political and military support to both Israel and the Palestinian authority

R7: THBT early childhood education in schools should undermine traditional gender roles

R6: THBT hacking is an acceptable form of protest against large corporations

R5: THW allow the creation of donor siblings

R4: THBT Barack Obama should have vetoed any debt deal that did not increase taxation

R3: THBT Germany should ban the publication of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" indefinitely

R2: THW prohibit media from using software to cosmetically improve an individual appearance

R1: THW bring back the death penalty