Have the article read by OpenAI (Beta). Please note that AI translations may take some time to process.Madrid (dpa) – Spain will push the European Union to abolish the twice yearly switch to summer time and back again, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said in a video published on social media platform X on Monday.
“Frankly, I no longer see any reason for this,” he said.
Sánchez noted that a majority of EU citizens had come out against the time switch in all surveys. He said that no energy was saved through the measure, but human biological rhythms were disrupted twice a year.
Spain would seek to abolish the time change in 2026, he said.
Clocks go back an hour during the night on October 26, ending Central European Summer Time (CEST). The aim of the measure, which was reintroduced in 1980, was to enable a better use of daylight hours.
The European Commission polled EU citizens in 2018 in a non-representative survey, finding that 84 percent were against the time change. The Commission president at the time, Jean-Claude Juncker, pledged to end it the same year.
However, EU countries still have to decide whether they would permanently adopt summer time or the standard time observed through the winter months. With no agreement on this so far, the issue has been on hold for years. (20 October)
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