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Ending the European Monopolies

The debate wages on in Europe over the state-run gambling monopolies in almost a dozen EU member-states. Charlie McCreevy, the European Commissioner has spent nearly a year now asking ten of the 27 EU member states violating EU principles to put an end to gambling monopolies. And as was to be expected, the nations are taking their sweet time complying with the Commissioner’s requests. Two of the nations that are high on the Commissioner’s list are Holland and Greece – both nations have regulations and legislation in place that limits of EU companies from accessing the nations’ online casinos sportsbetting market.

At this point the Commissioner has sent requests for compliance to both countries – and both requests were largely ignored. The Commissioner has little enforcement powers in the EU, and as such the nations are continuing to operate online casinos monopolies until forced to alter legislation by the European Court of Justice – and that could take several years. Knowing this, the Commission officials are meeting this week to considering issue final warnings to both Greece and Holland.

A final warning is the first step to bringing a country before the European Court of Justice – if both countries continue to operate online casino sportsbetting monopolies after the warning the Commissioner can then bring them before the Courts. If the Commission officials pass the decision to send final warnings to both countries this would be the first of many eventual “final warnings.” Several other countries like Sweden and Germany could face action from the Commissioner in the near future.