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TL;DR: Then COVID-19 hit and the pandemic overshadowed the discussion.
Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL discontinuing seasonal changes of time and repealing Directive 2000/84/EC
The European Parliament has voted to discontinue daylight saving time. However, before the proposal becomes a law, European Union member states will need to hammer out the details.
Under the proposal, by 2020 each EU member state would need to choose either "summertime" (daylight saving time) or "wintertime" (standard time). The change would go into effect in 2021.
The last time the matter was discussed at the EU Council was in December 2019. Countries then called on the European Commission to produce an “impact assessment” of the proposal before being able to decide. Then Covid-19 hit and the pandemic overshadowed the discussion.
The merits and drawbacks of Daylight Saving Time (DST) – the biannual practice of adjusting clocks forwards and backwards – have long been debated. In this column, I explore compelling reasons to abolish DST, focusing on the health impacts, societal costs, and the outdated rationale behind its implementation.
📣 #daylightSavingTime, #DKpol, #DST, #EUlex, #EUpol, #EuropeanUnion, #summertime
Der har, så vidt jeg kan se, været fem #borgerforslag vedr. #sommertid gennem årene: tre i 2018, et i 2020, og så et endnu aktivt forslag fra november 2025, som endnu kun har samlet 705 støtter:
Det er lidt op ad bakke…
/cc #DKpol
@jenselbaek Du kan jo forsøge om du kan samle medstillere og støtter nok. 😉
Som det er nu, er det rimeligt svært overhovedet at få de nødvendige 50.000 støtter der skal til. Hvis man skulle ændre på proceduren, synes jeg snarere at man skulle gøre noget der gjorde det lettere at få et forslag fremlagt i folketinget.
Og så ved jeg ikke… Måske skal jeg tænke lidt længere over det først, men umiddelbart synes jeg at det ville være lidt underligt hvis man kunne nedstemme et borgerforslag. Når vi går til valg, stemmer vi heller ikke kandidater ud. Er det ikke lidt lissom at sparke til folks sandslotte?
Men man kunne indføre kvadratisk afstemning:
The quadratic nature of the voting suggests that a voter can use their votes more efficiently by spreading them across many issues. For example, a voter with a budget of 16 vote credits can apply 1 vote credit to each of the 16 issues. However, if the individual has a stronger passion or sentiment on an issue, they could allocate 4 votes, at the cost of 16 credits, to the singular issue, using up their entire budget.