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The Swedish government has in place perhaps one of the most lucrative online casino gambling monopolies in Europe – the nation’s gambling monopoly effectively controls a huge portion of the internet and land gambling, lottery, and betting activities. Some of the other countries that have already begun to comply with the Commission’s requests had restrictive legislation in place, but were perhaps more amenable to opening their state markets because they did not have the an elaborate state monopoly in place that was quite as lucrative and effective at blocking foreign online casinos and gambling sites.

Svenske Spel on the other had is highly lucrative for the Swedish government and funds the state coffers to a huge extent. The state government has blatantly objected to the Commission’s requests to open the gambling market to foreign online casinos and the country’s courts question the applicability of EU trade principles to the internet gambling industry. To answer some of the huge questions facing the European online casino gambling industry, the Swedish Supreme Court sent a handful of highly pertinent questions to the European Court of Justice for answers.

The questions center on how the EU principles apply to the online casino gambling market – mainly with the idea of the legality of state monopolies in mind. And while the ECJ will now have to pass a judgment on the situation and answer the posed questions, many industry analysts predict that the answer could be a long time in coming and that the online gambling industry could have to wait as long as 18 months before the ECJ gives an official answer.