Spanien fordert das Ende der halbjährlichen Zeitumstellung in der EU ab 2026

Will spain and france get on uk and Portugal time? Hopefully. Berlin time just feels wrong

I like my sun in the afternoon during my free time, because before work I sadly can’t do a lot with the sunlight.

Spain is once again dispensing wisdom. It is in the western time zone.

Without daylight saving time, it would already be dark here in the early evening (Hungary).

If anyone complains again about the difficulties of changing the clocks twice a year, their mother will be disappointed.

Best regards: those who work multiple shifts.

It’s ‚this‘ time of the year lol

Yes, lets end this madness!!

I want that in Romania alsooo… Let’s gooo!

Yes please

**Spain will defend in Europe that the time does not vary twice a year: „Frankly, I no longer see the point in it,“ says Pedro Sánchez**

„As you know, this week [the time is changed ](https://elpais.com/sociedad/2025-10-17/no-es-manana-cuando-es-el-cambio-de-hora-de-invierno-que-estas-esperando.html)again,“ says the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in a video published on his profile in X. „Frankly,“ says Sánchez, „I no longer see the point.“ „In all the polls in which Spaniards and Europeans are asked, in a majority way, they are against changing the time,“ adds the president, who announces that in line with the vote six years ago in the European Parliament, the Spanish government will defend before its European partners that we stop changing the hours twice a year in 2026.

„This is a debate that has been going on for a long time, because the European Parliament voted six years ago to end the time change. So today the Government of Spain is going to defend that we make that majority vote count and stop changing the hours, finally, in 2026,“ says Sánchez. The proposal will be launched at the European Union’s Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council being held this Monday in Luxembourg and where the ministers of the member states are meeting. The item was not on the original agenda, but the Secretary of State for Energy, Joan Groizard, who represents Spain at the European meeting, explained on his arrival in Luxembourg that he requested its inclusion on the agenda „to reopen the debate on the time change“, which has been stalled for years.

The arguments that the Government of Spain will use to defend the end of the seasonal time change in the European Union are, firstly: the majority support of Spanish and European citizens, also the lack of scientific evidence on the relationship between the time change and energy savings and, thirdly, the negative effects of changing the time twice on the health and well-being of citizens.

The Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Parliament, Félix Bolaños, explained on Monday that the Government has decided to open this debate now because the EU’s planning on the current time changes ends in 2026, so it is at this time that it must be raised. According to Bolaños, the current system no longer serves to achieve the two objectives that were pursued when it was implemented in 1980, which were energy saving and the harmonization of the common market and, however, the two annual changes cause „sleep disorders and lifestyle habits“. Spain is going to take that proposal to the next meeting of EU energy ministers, explained the minister, who pointed out that they do not want Spain’s proposal „to be a closed proposal but to achieve consensus“. „We want to have flexibility to talk to our European partners,“ he added, **reports Reyes Rincón.**

„The energy system is changing a lot and it is important to reopen the debate to find a solution that works as well as possible,“ Groizard stressed. „We are aware of European diversity, but we understand that it is important to reopen the debate and address an important issue for citizens,“ he insisted.

[80% of European citizens were in favour of eliminating it ](https://elpais.com/internacional/2018/08/30/actualidad/1535619026_263003.html)in a referendum in 2018. The then president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker said in the European Parliament: „Europeans are not going to applaud us if we continue to change the time twice a year. The time change must be suppressed.“ So, he proposed ending this variation in 2019. Something that did not happen because „an in-depth public debate“ on the matter was needed. A vote in the European Parliament approved in March of that year that the end of the time change would come in 2021. But it didn’t happen either. „There is no news, the file is still stuck more or less in the same position as in 2018,“ [a diplomatic source from the Council of the EU acknowledged to EL PAÍS at the time](https://elpais.com/sociedad/2021-10-29/el-cambio-de-hora-se-mantiene-a-pesar-del-intento-de-la-comision-europea-de-abolirlo.html).

Finally! I’ve been asking about this constantly ever since vote went through (ofc i voted to stop this nonsense) and then…..nothing

EU didn’t seem to care about actually setting it in motion.
I really hope this will lit some fire under the EU parlament’s butt and actually make this happen, it is long overdue.

All bi-annual clock changes do is cause unnecessary confusion by creating a problem to solve

All for it. Ever since i have a child, both days in March and October are like a nightmare.

I am incredibly sensitive to these changes, it throws me off for weeks.

This incredibly disruptive measure was taken to save energy. However the energy saving is absolutely minimal (0.3%) and is not worth all the hassle.

I beg you please, stop this nonsense. I know a lot of people that have major problems adjusting twice a year. It is not healthy. I don’t care if you want to use wintertime (original time) or summer time, just stop changing the clock twice a year.

I have been hoping for this for many many years and I don’t understand why this is not a simple decission!