US EditionSpain Wants to Make Huge ‘Clocks Going Back’ Change as It Makes Plea to EU
Spain's Prime Minister cites scientific evidence and majority public opposition to clock changes, aiming for EU-wide abolition of daylight saving time by 2026.
- Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on social media he will propose ending clock changes in the European Union on Monday, aiming to stop the practice in 2026.
- This Monday, Sánchez plans to remind other European leaders that six years ago they voted to end clock changes and argued surveys show majority opposition.
- Citing health effects, Sánchez argued clock changes disrupt biological rhythms twice a year and no longer make sense, harming people's health and offering no energy savings.
- Sánchez frames the change as aligning policy with public preferences and science, arguing policies must adapt to the majority of the people and to science for EU member states.
- As clocks go back for winter time, EFE reported Sánchez reiterated he does not see the point in moving clocks, with leaders set to discuss the proposal on Monday.
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Pedro Sánchez no longer wants passages between summer and sunshine and made a proposal that is still very preliminary
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AlKhaleej TodaySpain wants EU to ditch daylight saving time after 40 years, citing health and energy concerns
MADRID, Oct 21 — Spain will push the European Union to abolish the twice yearly switch to summer time and back again, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said in a video published on X on Monday.“Frankly, I no longer see any reason for this,” he said, reported German Press Agency (dpa).Sánchez noted that a majority of EU citizens had come out against the time switch in all surveys.He said that no energy was saved through the measure, but human biologic…
Sánchez wants to end the change of time in the EU... but he finds the eternal lack of consensus among the partners. It is the summary with an issue that, like so many others, does not find the necessary unity within the Community bloc. Almost everyone understands that the change of time can have consequences at different levels, but they continue, after many years, without taking the step to end it.
Spain wants to abolish the time change in the EU. Head of Government Sánchez sees "no more sense in the measure and points to a lack of energy savings and health disadvantages.
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