UK - The UK Treasury is expected to complete its review of the £1.7 billion British online gambling market early in December. Experts are of the view that the recommendation of a secondary licensing fee on offshore remote gaming companies operating in the British market is on the cards. Last week the discussions arranged by Member [...]

GREECE -  Austerity-hit Greeks spurned gambling as their economy nosedived over the summer, punching a hole in quarterly profit at OPAP, Europe’s biggest betting company. Unlike some recession-hit countries where more people turn to lotteries as their last hope for quick cash, Greeks have been gambling less after being hit with wage cuts and tax [...]

EUROPE - The European Commission opened a legal, political and cultural can of worms when earlier this year it said it would take a closer look at the murky waters of online gambling in the EU. The announcement sparked a flurry of interest around the EU, not least from a Spanish charity for the blind which [...]

EUROPE – The European Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) may appear at odds with the European Commission on the subject of online gambling, but there is still time to engineer a conclusion from its deliberations on the forthcoming vote that could benefit European consumers, sports and businesses alike says Khalid [...]

EUROPE - Online gambling companies have signalled they could take fresh legal action against what they say is an over-cautious opening of the German gambling market, agreed by the federal states last week. “The majority of the EU Commission’s concerns appear to have been ignored by the 15 states and we therefore expect more legal wrangling [...]