Right,because when I go shopping in another country 1p minutes from here, I want to have to worry about what time zone they're in... Like in Queensland/NSW, that's just silly there.

You can't really have timezones without... being able to cross timezones. What's your point?

That countries within the EU should be within the same timezone when they're on the same longitude, duh. Imagine West- and Southern Europe all having different choices on whether they observe DST and when it starts... Sure there are many places on Earth where it happens, but it's a major inconvenience. Hence, we need supranational coordination.

A nation could choose to keep DST, but it would be frowned upon as it would hinder the cohesion with other countries. They have no incentives to do so, nobody likes DST on the whole continent.

Morocco changes the clocks four times a year. During Ramadan they switch to winter time, so the night falls earlier and they can have a snack (iftar).

Keeping summer time permanently was the popular option in the survey. What makes you think winter time will be the default?

The US allows states to skip DST but places fairly strict restrictions on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Time_Act

Individual nations don’t have the weight to do it alone, if Austria decided to go it alone it would be chaos for then. They have authority to do whatever they want, it just doesn’t make sense to do it alone.

The linked article seems to indicate otherwise, but the member states are free to do what they want on this issue.

According to the European Commission, 6% of expenditure is on administration, compared with 94% on policies. To pay for this, the EU had an agreed budget of €143 billion for the year 2014, representing around 1% of the EU-28's gross national income (GNI).

From Budget of the European Union - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union

that number is disproportionately low as most of the cost of enforcing areas that the EU now controls is attributed to national budgets: this makes the EU look a lot more efficient that it is in reality

e.g. the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is essentially an arm of the EU, but its costs are entirely borne by the UK government's budget

once you realise that 6% is only mostly the very top level of administration in Brussels, and little of the costs to implement policies at the national level: it starts to look a lot more expensive

Most of the EU's rules and laws have been lobbied for by the industry because the industry loves standardization.

Not sure where your comment is coming from, but who doesn't love standardization on an engineers discussion board?

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