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Despite the fact that many vulnerable people, such as the sick, the elderly and children, feel bad about changing the clock twice a year and despite the fact that the time change did not provide the energy savings that were intended from the beginning, the proposal to abolish exchange within the EU has not moved at all. last year.
The European Commission accused proposal to end the time change more than two years ago. Last year, the European Parliament also decided its position that a majority wanted to stop changing the clock as of next year, in spring or autumn, depending on whether you choose eternal winter time or summer time, which is decision of each country.
But the responsible ministers of the EU countries have not addressed the issue, which means that the negotiations have stopped.
The Social Democrat Johan Danielsson, responsible for the issue in the European Parliament, is disappointed.
– I am disappointed with the Council and perhaps especially with the German Presidency. I still had high hopes that they would take up the issue and develop a position on the board so that we could begin to finalize this, says Johan Danielsson.
He thinks yes Germany should be of interest to address the problem. When the Commission carried out its important poll on the time change, to which several million Europeans responded, it was mainly the Germans who said it should be abolished.
To speed up the talks, Johan Danielsson sent a letter last week to German Minister Peter Altmaier, urging him to take the issue seriously. “European citizens have waited long enough,” Danielsson wrote.
So far, there has been no response from Altmaier.
The reason he and other ministers from the EU countries have raised the issue is that they are the ones who have to implement a possible decision and it is quite complicated.
It must be coordinated so you don’t get a patchwork quilt with many different times in the EU, which would affect the EU internal market and especially the transport sector. But it would also be difficult for the energy sector: for example, it would be necessary to manually reprogram all energy meters in the EU.
As the decision has been drawn out, we will not abolish the time change next year as the European Parliament and Johan Danielsson want, but we will continue to change the clock.
– We will definitely have to do that. But hopefully we can do it knowing that there are not so many changes left, he says.
