On Wednesday, Amsterdam saw the second four of eight preliminaries of the EUDC. Tonight, participants eagerly expect the announcement of the break: Which teams are going to make it into the final rounds?

Motions of the preliminaries five to eight:

• This House believes that Bradley Manning should be pardoned if he is convicted of ‘communigating, transmitting and delivering national defence information to an unauthorised source’.
• This House would allow all women, and women only, to bear arms.
• This House would  offer the Taliban power-sharing deals in exchance for acts of disarmament.
• This House believes that developing nations should distribute as a dividend to citizens all income derived from natural resource extraction.

The European Universities Debating Championships (EUDC) 2010 are staged in Amsterdam from July 12 to 17. The tournament’s slogan reads “Spread the love”. Motions and more info on the competition can continually be found on twitter, look for hashtag #EUDC. You may also read current tweets in the Achte Minute magazine on the right bar.