Daily news broadcast in Croatia is a good example how media tarnish social issues. The heated debate on the Sunday working hours of the selected stores, if any, presents the Catholic church as a main (and the only authoritative) player in that social maneuver.

Few things upset people - and whole cultures and economies - more than changes in timing. This, as we wrote in 1970 when fast food started flooding in France, explains the pathological antagonism toward what many regard as the ‘Americanization’ of Europe.

Nearly thirty years later in Germany, retailer Günter Biere got a taste of precisely this reaction when he insisted on opening his Kaufhof department store in Berlin on a Sunday. [...] What is happening, however, is not Americanization. It is the arrival of an alien rhythm of life associated with the latest wealth system. The changed rhythm is present and, despite opposition, slowly advancing in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Things already move faster in Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai than in Paris, London or Berlin.

Alvin and Heidi Toffler: Revolutionary Wealth, Alfred A. Knoff, New York, 2006.