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> Berliners don’t want shops to open on Sundays so workers can have the day off. But they do want restaurants to be open so they can go there with their own families.

That's pretty much any culturally christian country. UK and Poland for example. Thank god for migrant workers, to let us have our cake and eat it too.

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Poland is unique here in the matter that it has banned Sunday shopping only recently to pander to the religious voter base. Germany has modified their labor laws to give the states freedom to regulate opening hours on 6 days of the week, but never extended this to Sundays (as Sunday is a constitutionally protected day of rest).

> banned Sunday shopping only recently to pander to the religious voter base

More like to the Catholic Church corporation, to ensure that before next elections, church goers will receive proper instructions during Sunday masses, on how to vote.

But the shops do open on Sundays in the UK. And in most European countries now.

Was it still the case 15 years ago? I recall tesco and sainsbury being closed on Sundays and other religious holidays, and the only place you could count to be open was the corner shop.

The change came 30 years ago in the UK.

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