EU postpones decision lifting the clock's seasonal movement by 2021

EU Transport Ministers have decided to postpone the removal of the seasonal clock movement until 2021, while the European Commission has proposed that next year be the last to which scorpions move twice a year, Croatian Sea, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Oleg Butkovic said today.

“We supported the Austrian EU Presidency's proposal, and by 2021, there will be no final decision”, said Butkoviqi, who is participating in a two-day meeting of the Transport and Telecommunications Council in Brussels.

On September 12th 2018, the European Commission proposed the removal of the clock shift across the European Union in 2019 and remains to member states to decide whether to keep summer or winter time alone, Kosovo Press broadcasts.

A survey of the European Commission, attended by 4.6 million people, showed that most of them opposed the shift of the hour twice a year.

“We supported the principled stance to shift the clock movement twice a year, though in Croatia we still have no position to calculate winter or summer time. We need to conduct a public debate and see what is best”, Butkovic said.

Otherwise, by November 1st 2019, EU member states must decide whether to keep the winter or summer count in place forever, HINA broadcasts.