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Sweden Online Casino Policies in Question

The European Union, and the European Commission in particular has spent the last year and more finding ways to completely open the EU online casino gambling industry. At the core of the EU are the central tenants of free trading of goods and services between member-states, but several of the nations that continue to benefit from membership in the EU do not follow the policy in all regards. Sweden in particular has proven very difficult for the Commission because the Swedish government has a long history of monopolies at the core of the nation’s welfare policies.

All of that has begun to change however because of efforts by the Commission in part, but largely because of online casinos that are no longer willing to wait for the Commission to succeed in negotiating new policies. Instead, companies like Betsson plowed right into the Swedish gambling industry with the setup of a betting shop based out of Stockholm. Betsson had appealed to the Swedish government on numerous occaisions to be allowed access to Swedish land and online casino gamblers but has been consistently denied.

But Betsson has managed to penetrate the Swedish gambling market and it seems that there is precious little that the Swedish government can really do to forbid the company from remaining in operation. If the case gets taken all the way to the European Court of Justice there is little doubt that the Swedish government would lose the case. And additionally, Sweden’s own gambling monopoly, Svenske Spel, has really begun to wilt under the highly restricted government and has been denied permission to operate in the foreign online casino gambling industry.