The former Minister of Tourism, Elena Udrea, criticizes the change of daylight saving time and says that this over 100-year-old practice unnecessarily complicates the lives of Romanians. “I think that Romania, through the representatives in the EP, should strongly support the elimination of the time change,” she said.
“Over the weekend we turned the clock forward again. A more than 100-year-old habit, introduced to save energy, in a world where lighting was the main consumption and people worked in three shifts. Today, the reality is different because we save almost nothing, we just disrupt our sleep and biological rhythm and unnecessarily complicate our everyday life”. wrote Elena Udrea, on Facebook.
The former minister told how the time change directly affects everyday life.
“And yet, we go on. And yesterday and this morning we felt again, most of us, how absurd it had become. I had to wake Eva in the dark to take her to school… just as it was finally starting to get earlier. What do we get out of it? What’s the point?”says Udrea.
The former minister recalled that, although in 2019 the European Union decided that the member states must give up changing the time, Romania did not implement this measure.
“I think that Romania, through the representatives in the EP, should strongly support the elimination of the time change, together with the other European states. Because some decisions are not only about politics, they are about people’s daily lives. How did you feel about this change?”“, she also said.
