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Opening Up to Private Providers

All across Europe governments are facing some tough decisions when it comes to online casino gambling – some nations still have legislation in place blocking internet gambling while other are facing the wrath of the European Commission because of their state-run internet gambling monopolies. There are also many countries that have struck a needed balance between the two extremes and are offering regulated and licensed gambling for citizens. The Belgium government has announced plans to perhaps liberalize the nation’s gambling market and license private online casinos to offer gambling to Belgian citizens.

The announcement that Belgium is considering opening the internet gambling market comes as little surprise to most – the majority of EU nations have steadily liberalized their gambling policies over the past several years (with exception of the ten or so countries with gambling monopolies in place). The Belgium parliament is reportedly heavily considering liberalizing the gambling legislation as early as this year – which means that Belgium gamblers could have access to licensed online casinos as early as 2009.

Belgium already fosters a well developed land gambling industry, in addition to the country’s national lottery, so a regulated and licensed online casino gambling industry is a logical next step for the country. At this point though the proposal is only that, and there is little indication of how likely it is that the Belgium parliament will liberalize internet gambling this year. Basically it is a bit of a waiting game, but even so, some of the major European online gambling brands are already looking forward to the prospects of this relatively undeveloped internet gambling market.