La Spagna chiederà la fine del cambio semestrale dell’ora nell’UE a partire dal 2026

Yes please! All of this has stopped making sense a long time ago. Stop messing with our health with this 2 times a year madness!

Daylight Saving Time allowed more activity after work. This is now an absurdity. Forget work as such! Work never had a future to start with and never will it have one. Work cannot be done by smart people. Work is about helping a capitalist to eliminate his competitors with the latest robots. And, the “Protestant work ethics” has only destroyed our climate.

Same story every year in Europe when it’s close to clock change, nothing ever happens, always postponed for the next time 😅😅

Just change it back by half an hour next week and be done with it.

If they do kill it I hope we keep the summer time.

Honestly, it’s embarrassing how long this has been a talking point for the EU. Really drives home the fact that nothing, however small, gets done in this coalition.

Permanent normal time please. For people who “like the sun in the evening” arrange so that they can start work an hour earlier if they want to.

It’s ‘this’ time of the year lol

I love this. SURELY there aren’t more important or pressing matters to be discussing as a Spanish politician, no sir, everything is fine and dandy. 

Seems like I’m the only person in the world who thinks the clocks going back is a good idea and should remain. Genuinely think people just love to moan about anything they possibly can. 

Yeah, the European Parliament already decided this 6 years ago, the failure to make it happen is farcical.

**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).

I signed the petition 84 years ago.

This should be up to each country to decide. Otherwise we all get be on Berlin time.

hope this time its going to happen.

Imagine if the EU was as keen getting stuff like this done instead of trying to force Chat Control down our throats for the x-th time.