Lazier Sunday afternoons?

Exactly. Sundays. The shopping centres are open, as are the shops, the restaurants and the cinemas inside them. Taking one glance at the human traffic in these malls, it would be easy to come to the conclusion that, at least in a big city, Sunday shopping is a fixture on the weekend agenda of many people, and not only the younger ones. But perhaps this is all going to change. A letter of intent was signed at the Polish parliament on March 8th, at the initiative of NSZZ Solidarność (Independent and Self-governing Trade Union Solidarność), to petition for a civil bill to ban working on Sunday in the retail sector. The current balance of power in the parliament means that this proposal is likely to see the light of day – and that the Poles (just like the Germans, the Austrians, the Swiss and the French) will no longer be able to shop on Sundays. Although the ultimate form of the act is not yet known, it has been suggested that small shops where