Croatia Travel Blog

The wrangle over Croatia’s Sunday shopping ban has gone on for a number of months but now there’s a final verdict: unconstitutional. Ever since the ban went into effect in January 2009, Croatia’s merchants have been agitating for its repeal, arguing that the weak economy could ill afford the loss of jobs that the ban would entail. Supporting the ban was the Roman Catholic church, a potent political force in Croatia. Even though the law was riddled with exceptions designed to minimize the impact on tourists, the owners of various supermarket chains, malls and shops filed suit claiming that the law was an unconstitutional impingement on market freedom. Croatia’s Constitutional Court agreed and struck down the ban in a unanimous decision.

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