How do you experience the passage of daylight saving time? in winter time? If you had a choice, would you delete the Time change ? It is in substance on this kind of question that all European citizens are invited to express themselves on a online questionnaire until August 16. The European Commission allows any citizen of the European Union to give voice to this debate by answering the consultation in 5 questions.
This survey could well depend on the survival or the end of the system put in place in the EU countries. In France, the time change is a measure implemented in 1976 under Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. After the oil shock, the aim was to save energy by aligning working hours with hours of sunshine, in order to limit artificial lighting.
But this measure counts its detractors who point out the undesirable effects, in particular during the transition to winter time. Road Safety has in the past warned of the increased risk of accidents of which pedestrians would be the first victims with the increased darkness on the last Sunday of October (change to winter time).
MEPs for the end of the time change
This dangerousness on the roads is one of the arguments taken up on February 8 by the MEPs meeting in Strasbourg to justify the abandonment of the time change. “Due to the time change, we see more accidents, more disruption in families and society, more health problems… “, explained the Czech deputy Pavel Svodoba, of the EPP group (European right). Like this elected member, the MEPs pleaded mainly for the outright abolition of the device with 384 votes in favor (and 153 against The evaluation of the system by the European Commission before a possible revision of the system was then decided.
The ball is therefore now in the court of 510 million Europeans, including 67 million French.
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