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经组委会统计，在本次辩题投票中，有效票数为557张。其中「英国应该重新加入欧盟。」辩题票数后来居上，最终占总投票数46.3%，当选2025年度冠军赛辩题！

2025 NHSDLC年度冠军赛辩题

Resolved: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland should rejoin the European Union.

英国应该重新加入欧盟。

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今日同步官宣！

经过全民公投与漫长的脱欧谈判

2020年，英国正式宣布退出欧盟

5年后的今天

面对多重现实压力与地缘政治变局

“是否应该重新加入欧盟”

成为了英国政府不得不进行考量的重要问题

但无论英国政府做出何种抉择

这一问题的本质都是其对主权让渡与经济效益的再权衡

期待各位辩手在

欧盟加速一体化与英国“全球主义”愿景间

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今年的辩题背景吧！

Topic Background

辩题背景

Following a 2016 referendum, the United Kingdom exited from the European Union at the end of January 2020. Since leaving the EU, numerous polling organizations have conducted surveys to gauge public opinion on rejoining the organization. The trend of the poll data shows that, over time, support for Brexit has waned, while public opinion in the UK has gradually moved in favor of rejoining the EU (totally or partially, such as joining the European single market).

In September 2023, thousands of people participated in a march in London campaigning for the United Kingdom to rejoin the EU. Also in September 2023, France and Germany proposed a restructuring of the membership of the EU to allow the UK to rejoin as an associate member, rather than a full member.

Is it the right time for the UK to rejoin the EU? Is there other ways for UK to cooperate with EU without a membership? Let’s dive into the #Brejoin topic

Pro can get a lot of ground from the legacy of Brexit. The biggest argument area might be Econ for pro. Economists and analysts generally assess the impact of leaving the EU single market and customs union on 1 Jan 2021 on the UK's goods trade as having been negative. The negative impact comes from so-called "non-tariff barriers" - time consuming and sometimes complicated new paperwork that businesses have to fill out when importing and exporting to the EU. As a result, A 2019 analysis found that British firms substantially increased offshoring to the European Union after the Brexit referendum, whereas European firms reduced new investments in the UK.

Another argument area can be EU-UK unity. Considering Trump’s isolationist agenda – imposing tariff on EU & threatening to leave NATO etc. – it’s of great importance for European countries to form unity. This can lead to several impact scenarios, including military efforts, environmental agenda, and global soft power influence. Focusing on the context of debate with Trump can give pro some leverage.

Con should clarify to the judge this debate isn’t a Brexit good or bad debate. The topic requires a new action of Britain rejoin the EU, and as usual con has a huge ground of arguing status quo is already good enough. UK already started and settled some business negotiations with the EU, providing mutually beneficial ground for both parties.

On specific disadvantages though. While the cost of Brexit is high, the cost of rejoining might be even higher. Traumatized by the Brexit decision, EU members might fear another temporary membership and thus require higher threshold of rejoining, this can include higher budget contribution, mandatory Schengen participation, mandatory minimum membership period etc. Another major area of concern is the rising populism; populism sentiment was the major driver for the 2016 referendum as Populist factions framed the issue as UK conceding its people’s right and interest to EU; the sentiment was waned after Brexit and allowed the UK to have more liberal talks with EU or other international community. Rejoining the EU, however, may trigger right wing agenda to resurge and stifle the current progress of UK international cooperation.

For either pro or con, remember there are actually two debates under the topic. On top of arguing benefits vs harms of rejoining the EU, pro and con may have different imagination of how this re-preparticipation will look like. Will the UK rejoin as a full member or an associate member? What terms will EU impose on UK for them to rejoin? Who will have more leverage during the negotiation for Brejoin? The way for UK to rejoin Britain will eventually influence how true the arguments are.

Refrences

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_re-accession_of_the_United_Kingdom_to_the_European_Union

2. voxeu.org/article/brexit-and-outward-investment-uk-firms

3. www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrynjz1glpo

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