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No problem. Well that would make sense regarding Austria, but the German population is only about 16% of the EU population, so 70% of the responses is still odd.

Weird that the BBC article doesn't say the same thing.

If it was asked in the same way across the countries, then no, that would not be the Commission's fault. For 70% of results to come from 1/28th of the countries however, is so extreme that I can't imagine the question was put in the same way to each country.

What's that got to do with my post?

Not according to the link in the OP. According to that, we'd have to choose GMT or BST and stick with it. There would be no option for changing twice a year, as we do now. Have you got a link to show that this wouldn't be compulsory?

"The European Commission - in charge of drafting EU legislation - made the proposal last year, after a public consultation which showed 84% of respondents wanting to scrap the biannual clock changes. There were 4.6 million replies in that consultation, 70% of which were from Germans." They're...