Members of the EU should form a single state.

Having said that, now on with the debate. By EU countries form one state, I interpret that a single state is one with 1 set of laws and 1 government. In order to prove that it would be a good idea to have EU countries to unite, I challenge my opponent to prove 1. All participants in such a reform would be better off. 2. This state would hold together long term and short term. 3. Minor European countries would not become irrelevant and functionally cease to exist. As opposition, I will attempt to disprove as many of these as possible while being aware that disproving only one would still be enough to show that this would be a bad idea. 4. (out of the original order) The lack of an emotional glue. My opponent while refuting my argument headings made the following statements: "given a goal or even a life threatening ordeal and people will join together to overcome this challenge. Take soldiers for example if the bullets are flying and the bombs are going off they join together to get each other out alive. Another aspect is natural disasters, When a disaster happens people band together and help out those in need. " In his case my opponent has outlined various scenarios in which people will get best differences in order to overcome a challenge. However, in each example given, he has outlined and emotional 'glue', e. g. war, natural disaster. Fundamentally the argument states that in times of need people will unite. This is exactly what does not apply to Europe. In Europe, there have been recently no wars, disasters, or for that matter any form of a common enemy (the most effective 'glue' of all) Therefore such reasoning provides no evidence to suggest that such a state consisting of countries who have historically been enemies more that allies could keep together. 1. Contrasting Social Mentalities. When I say social mentality, what I mean in the general approach of a society to work and to law. My statement is that a country consisting of contrasting mentalities won't function well. My proof: consider a country with 2 portions of the population: one which believes in hard work and the other which does the minimum work in order to have he maximum leisure. In such a state, needless to say the hardworking region would have a much stronger internal economy than the lazier one, thus it would be better developed. Why is this important? Because the job of an state is to spend money where need is greater. In such a scenario, the need is in the less developed region (i. e. the lazy region). Therefore with such contrasting mentalities as these, the hardworking fund the lazy. Thus the hard working suffer from such a system and lazy benefit. Thus a society is created in which there is no motivation to work hard, thus creating what is fundamentally a welfare state. Now lets apply this to Europe. You have Germany which efficient, hardworking, and law abiding. Put this in one state with a country which is (relative to Germany) underdeveloped and less hardworking like Italy, and the above scenario occurs. Therefore having the EU countries unite creates a system in which the 'engine room' of Europe: Germany, suffers, and would therefore be unhappy with such a reform. Thus there would be no incentive for Germany to remain in this super state, thus making its the state quite unstable. 2. Incompatibly of separate economies Most EU countries use the Euro it is true, but this does not mean that they have one economy. One only has to look back at the time of the economic boom when Ireland was already into it, while France and Germany was only entering. At this time the ECB (European Central Bank, which decides interest rates for all of Europe) set low interest rates across the board. This was a stimulant for the German and French economies, because the timing was correct. For the Irish economy however, which boomed at a slightly different time, it was disastrous. Ireland were artificially given a much bigger than was real, causing them to over spend, over build, and over expand. Thus when the recession came, they had gone too far (due to the pro-cyclical policy of the ECB) and fell that much harder. This didn't only effect Ireland negatively, now it has gone so far such that it is harming the rest of the EU as well. When it is taken into account that this was caused ultimately by the ECB, a central dominant bank, you really have to question the logic in putting many countries whose economies boom and bust at different times under on policy maker, especially which this model has already failed. 4. Incompatibly of policies/laws My opponent believe that these differences can be integrated together. While this may be true for petty minor laws, those are not what I'm referring to. I'm talking about laws which to certain parties are a matter of life and death or policies which determine the entire way in which an economy is run. I. Abortion, Some EU countries accept it and others don't. In such a matter there can be no compromise, thus someone must end up unhappy, and as this is a matter in which most are emotionally involved in, it will make the loser very unsatisfied. In this case, Merging the EU would confirm Benjamin Franklin's quote, "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch," merging the EU would allow big countries to bully smaller ones around by forcing them to accept the opposite of what they already have and want. II. Economic policies. This goes into the fundamental Capitalist, Socialist debate which is ever present. In Europe, some countries like Ireland are relatively Capitalist (low taxes, yet few government services provided), on the other had we have Sweden which is relatively socialist (high taxes, yet many government services provided) These two policies are polar opposites. Both have benefits and both have faults, yet no 'best' method has yet been discovers. Thus in this as well one party will be forced to accept the opposite of what they have, thus creating dissatisfaction. In my argument, I have attempted to show why certain significant countries will be worse off by such a drastic reform as this. In addition I have tried to show that it will lead to an unstable state. Unstable states of course are all to likely to: at best separate, making the motion pointless, or start a war, making the motion a bad thing.