MEPs Urge EU Ministers to Act and Bring End to Seasonal Clock Changes
- On Tuesday, 44 MEPs addressed a letter to transport ministers of the 27 Member States urging them to break the deadlock and 'finally get the negotiations in the Council moving again.'
- In 2018, the European Commission held a public consultation where 4.6 million people responded, with 84 percent favoring the end of time changes; yet Member States failed to reach an agreement despite the European Parliament's 2019 support.
- German MEP Peter Liese, a medical doctor, noted that biannual clock changes cause 'sleep disturbances, fatigue and difficulties concentrating,' while recent studies have questioned the extent of energy savings achieved.
- Liese described the lack of an impact assessment as a 'pretext,' stating the situation 'is irresponsible' and shows problems are often caused by those responsible in the Member States.
- A new study commissioned by the European executive on abolishing seasonal clock changes should be completed by year-end, as people across Europe prepare to turn clocks back one hour on the 24th.
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It has already been a year since Brussels promised a new analysis of the situation at the request of Spain, which has now also found the support of Italy.
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The back and forth is on the hands of many citizens, but the EU is failing to put an end to it, and that also has economic reasons.
In a letter, the EU Transport Ministers asked more than 40 MEPs to discuss the abolition of the time change. "The senseless half-yearly turning on the clock must finally come to an end," said the SPÖ-EU delegation head Andreas Schieder.
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MEPs urge EU ministers to act and bring an end to seasonal clock changes
Some 44 members of the European Parliament from 15 different EU countries and six political groups have called on EU transport ministers to break the deadlock and get the plan to end the seasonal changing of the clocks moving again.
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Some 44 members of the European Parliament from 15 different EU countries and six political groups have called on EU transport ministers to break the deadlock and get the plan to end the seasonal changing of the clocks moving again.
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