Once again the debate about whether the European Union should eliminate the change of time, but for now still without significant advances In this regard. In 2018 the European Commission proposed to suppress it and after making a public consultation 84% of citizens They demonstrated in favor. A year later the European Parliament approved a resolution so that Each country would decide If I maintained the winter or summer schedule, but there is still no consensus among the Member States on which time spindle should be adopted.
Spain or France have studied making some adjustments in their schedules to improve conciliation and economic performance, but other European countries prefer that it is maintained as it is to avoid uncoordination. In our country, 65.8% of citizens advocate eliminating time change And 68.5% of them consider that summer schedule should be maintained in order to have more hours of light, according to a CIS survey conducted in 2023. However, it should be noted that not all countries have the same time spindle.
Our country adopted the time change in 1918, although the summer schedule was not applied continuously until 1974. In addition, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Spain advanced its time spindle and since 1981 the time change is regulated at European level. Therefore, the EU member states would have to agree on whether to use the time of central, oriental or western Europe in case it was decided to eliminate the time change in the future.
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