This material does not contain and should not be considered as containing - investment advice and recommendations, or suggestions for performing any actions with financial instruments. Marita Ulvskog, a Swedish MEP, said in the debate: “New technology and different ways of living mean that we no longer earn anything, in fact we don’t save.Disclaimer: This material is marketing material where all marketing material is published for informational purposes only. Critics say the survey was dominated by Germans, who made up 70% of the respondents.Ī European parliament report published ahead of the vote had suggested time changes were linked to cardiovascular diseases due to the interruption to biological cycles. The European commission survey on the proposal generated 4.6m responses, with 84% of respondents in favour. The practice of switching the clocks was introduced in the first world war to save energy by prolonging evening daylight in summer. With all of the problems and challenges facing the EU at present, one would have thought that the commission’s focus would be elsewhere.” “We welcomed the decision some years ago to ensure that, when the clocks do change across Europe, they do so on the same day, but have consistently argued that this is ultimately a matter for an individual country.
Jacqueline Foster, the Conservative party’s transport spokeswoman in the European parliament, said: “Quite frankly, this is not a matter that should be decided in Brussels. In December, freedom of information releases revealed the concerns of officials in the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy over the possibility of two different time zones on the island of Ireland for much of the year. The British government has yet to offer any formal opinion on the proposal, which risks creating fresh problems over the status of Northern Ireland after Brexit. “I know that farmers in particular, all across the east of England, value the flexibility that the clock changes bring to get the best from available daylight.” That made sense – but this is a step too far,” Flack added. “We agreed when they said the clocks should change across the whole EU on an agreed day. “You would think they had other things to worry about without wanting to become time lords,” he said, in an apparent reference to the BBC sci-fi drama Doctor Who. John Flack, the Conservative MEP for the East of England, said: “We’ve long been aware the EU wants too much control over our lives – now they want to control time itself.
It could, however, backtrack once the extension period is over. Should the House of Commons ratify the withdrawal agreement in the next three weeks, and go into an extended transition period, the UK government would have to implement the directive without any say. Tory MEPs, who voted against the proposal, reacted angrily to the development, with one accusing the European commission, which has pushed the plan to ditch daylight saving time, of acting like “time lords”. Under current EU law, the clocks in the 28 member states move forward together on the last Sunday in March and fall back on the last Sunday in October. It is the latest step in the EU’s harmonisation of daylight saving time first launched in the 1980s in an attempt to prevent divergent approaches from undermining the European single market.
Those that opt for permanent wintertime would change their clocks for the final time on the last Sunday of October 2021. Member states would be able to choose whether to remain on “permanent summer” or “permanent winter” time under the draft directive, which passed by 410 votes to 192.Ĭountries that wanted to be permanently on summertime would adjust their clocks for the final time on the last Sunday in March 2021.
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