Time’s Up: European Parliament to vote on scrapping mandatory daylight savings time
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After the European Parliament’s transport and tourism committee this week became the latest EU body to endorse the proposal in a report this week a vote on scrapping mandatory daylight savings time across the EU, the way has been cleared for the European Parliament to hold a vote on the issue.
clearing the way for the bloc’s parliament to hold a vote on the issue.The European Parliament is to vote on scrapping mandatory daylight savings time across the EU, in a move that could result in the continent ending its twice-yearly clock changes.
The Independent reported that EU sources said the issue would likely be put to a vote of all MEPs from across the bloc in the last week of March.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker last year said he wanted to scrap rules that obliged all EU countries to change their clocks in March and October. But member states are split with the UK, Greece, and Portugal on the forefront of those who want to keep the status quo while France, Denmark, and the Netherlands are among those undecided. Most other member states, most notably Germany, back the chang
Under the proposals to be voted on, the EU would no longer mandate the clock change and leave the choice up to member states. The committee recommended that the change be enacted from 2021, later than originally planned.
A European Commission consultation received 4.6 million responses out of 510 million citizens, with 84 per cent against the current practice of changing the clocks.
