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Another EU Online Casinos Monopoly

Effectively ending the internet gambling monopolies in the European Union is proving harder than most thought. The EU has policies in place that govern free trade in EU member nations – the problem is that several member nations extol the benefits of running a state online casinos gambling monopoly despite warnings from the European Commission. The EC is currently pursuing monopoly violations in Germany, Sweden, and now the Netherlands. All of these governments have passed legislation that limits the ability of foreign online casinos operators to offer services to citizens within these nations.

The European Commission is now waging an unofficial war against these governments – German made headlines early last month because of an online casinos ban for foreign operators, and now the Dutch government announced that it has plans to make it processing financial transactions between Dutch citizens and foreign online casinos operators illegal. Dutch players are specifically limited to using the government’s state-run gambling monopoly, Holland Casino.

Each of the three nations in violation of EU policies regarding the movement of goods and services between the nations are facing action from the Commission if they do not alter their protectionist legislation immediately. Although Sweden has long supported an online casinos monopoly in the country, the Dutch and German governments are currently passing legislation that will continue and support the countries’ online gambling monopolies – and that jut doesn’t fly the with European Commissioner, Charlie McCreevy.

All three government monopolies claim that the policies are in place as a way to protect online casinos gamblers from criminal activity and to protect the exploitation of underage and problem gamblers. But that logic is not supported by statistical research indicating that a monopoly is in fact a safer gambling environment and as such the Commission has demanding that the three nations alter the protectionist legislation currently in place.