[corty]

I'm not holding my breath for the implementation of this decision. After the public poll, politicians quickly claimed to want to implement this right away. Just to descend into the usual inability to decide upon anything (who wants which time zone, how do we align neighbouring timezones, do we want a timezone-difference between France and Germany (that geographically should be there, etc) that is characteristic for the EU.

My prediction is that the abolition will be delayed for another 7 or 8 years, after which they will just decide to drop the matter since "it's already a decade old".

[TazeTSchnitzel]

EU laws have fixed implementation deadlines and financial penalties for failing to implement them. If it completes the legislative process, it will happen. But indeed said process could be slow.