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Challenging the Monopolies

The EU online casino gambling situation just gets stickier by the day as the issue of state monopolies continues to build tension between the foreign internet gambling companies and the state sanctioned monopolies. Many of the online casinos, as well as the European Commission assert that the EU principles and policies advocate and open and accessible internet gambling market between all EU member-states already allowing types of gambling. Several prominent EU countries, though, are unwilling to bend on the issue – they run a successful land and online gambling market and have no plans to lose the profit from the state-run monopolies any time soon.

But the ask the online casinos and betting companies – they too are willing to put their foot down. The Swedish gambling market has caused a fair bit of problems for the Betsson, a Swedish internet gambling company. Betsson opened a land betting shop in the Stockholm earlier this year despite the fact the government has forbidden any company, foreign or domestic, to compete with the state’s online casino gambling monopoly. Betsson’s land betting shop was challenged in the courts and Betsson lost the case – but the company plans to succeed in the long-run and announced it will not back down.

Betsson has placed two appeals to the higher courts to reconsider the previous ruling – both of those appeals were rejected. But an open land and online casino gambling market is worth fighting for and Betsson released information that the company is now taking the appeal process even higher in the court system – to the Administrative Court of Appeal. Betsson plans to take this case as far as it takes to win.