It is completely unclear whether the time change on March 31. March, the last one will be performed in the European Union. Much suggests that the issue is dealing with the Union any longer. On Monday, the transport Committee of the European Parliament in Brussels with the theme. However, the question is: How do the member States? the Karoline Meta Beisel Karoline Meta Beisel
Karoline Meta Beisel was born in Aachen, Germany. After graduating from high school in Naumburg on the Saale, studied in Hamburg and Madrid law school. As in, you worked referenced, among other things, the Federal Ministry for economic cooperation and development, and in the case of Amnesty International in Berlin as well as at the OECD-representation of the foreign office in Paris. After the Second state exam she was trained at the Deutsche journalistenschule in Munich for the editor. Since 2011 she writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung
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time is running out. According to the will of the EU Commission, the clock should be changed by the end of the month, for the last Time on the summer time. “The clock must stop Moving,” said Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, as he presented the project in September. On Monday, the transport Committee in the European Parliament. It could well be that he is actually making the way for the end of the time changeover. And yet, it is likely to last for at least another two years, until the watch must then not be really converted, if ever.
This has to do with what Jean-Claude Juncker said at the time to the theme: “The States should decide whether their citizens should live in the summer or the winter time.” Thus, he noted, actually, only, what is the applicable law: The EU laws, all member States must on the same day, the clocks in the spring and again in autumn. But not what time shall apply in the respective countries. This makes the decision of how it should go, for the member States much more difficult than for the European Parliament: The members just have to decide whether you want the watch to be changed. The member States, in addition, about whether or not you want to be in eternal summer or maybe winter time of life.
that’s Exactly where the problems begin, as agreed, the countries are only that you should, if possible, to work together to avoid a “patchwork quilt” of different, and possibly even new time zones. Germany would remain, for example, like in the summer time. In Poland and in Spain, the question is fired, however, the debate on whether one lives in the wrong time zone. And then there are countries, especially those from southern Europe, which would leave everything as it is: “for lack of plausible Evidence, what would be the end of the time conversion benefits”, as it says in an interim report of the European Council from November. The thing is so complicated that the EU Ministers of transport, stated that it would take at least until 2021, until you’ve reached an agreement.
in the Meantime, however, it appears not even the more sure The topic will die “between the EU institutions, a slow death,” predicts the Diplomat. This would be mainly for the Germans, the bad news: In the civil survey of 4.6 million EU citizens voted 84 percent of the respondents for the end of the time changeover; among the participants were three million Germans were likely to be – what is the reason, why especially German MEPs Markus Ferber (CSU), before the vote in Parliament, the mood for the abolition of the time change: “European citizens have given us an order. We must comply without delay.” His colleague, Peter Liese (CDU), told of an encounter with a voter. The told him: “If you can do that, the CDU again about 50 percent.”
