Summer or Winter time?

Consultation sur le changement d’heure : l’heure d’été plébiscitée par les Français, avec une participation record. France participates in EU plebiscite in record numbers.

Cette consultation est sans valeur contraignante, mais son résultat sera transmis aux institutions européennes. This process is non-binding but results will be forwarded to the EU.

Une majorité de Français se dit favorable à un maintien toute l\'année à l\'heure d\'été, selon un communiqué de l\'Assemblée nationale publié le 6 mars 2019. (Photo d\'illustration)
Une majorité de Français se dit favorable à un maintien toute l’année à l’heure d’été, selon un communiqué de l’Assemblée nationale publié le 6 mars 2019. (Photo d’illustration) (JEFF PACHOUD / AFP). The majority of French people who voted favour staying with Summer time all year round. According to a communiqué published by the National Assembly today.

Lancée par la commission des Affaires européennes, cette consultation est sans valeur contraignante, mais son résultat sera transmis aux institutions européennes. La Commission européenne a proposé en septembre 2018 une nouvelle directive qui mettrait fin à ces changements qui impliquent d’avancer sa montre d’une heure en mars et de la reculer d’une heure en octobre et permettrait aux Etats membres de choisir leur fuseau horaire. Ceux-ci doivent maintenant trancher ces questions d’horloge, qui peuvent avoir des conséquences dans des domaines aussi variés que la santé ou les transports.

Launched by the European Commission, this non-binding consultation will however be forwarded to the EU institutions. The EU proposed the new directive in September 2018 which would put an end to changing the hour twice a year, March and October but still allow individual states to set it’s own time zone (fuseau horaire). Health and transport consequences, among others will be taken into consideration in making their decision.

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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