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An Online Casino Bites the Dust

Although Get Minted internet gambling site isn’t exiting the internet gambling industry completely, German internet gamblers will no longer have access to the site as of March 1, 2008. The German government announced an online casinos gambling ban effective January 1, 2008, and though the ban is highly controversial and violates EU principles of free trade, Get Minted has chosen to exit the German gambling market until the European Commission solves the current dispute with the German government.

The Get Minted online casinos gambling site has already stopped allowing German gamblers access to the site effective February 8, 2008, and has announced that players have until March 1, 2008 log into their existing accounts and withdraw account balances.

The German government passed legislation that now makes Germany operating an online casinos gambling monopoly – an activity that doesn’t sit well with the European Commission. Germany is the third EU member state to implement an internet gambling ban that protects a state-run monopoly, and all three countries could face charges in the European Court of Justice if they continue to ban other EU states access to their gambling markets. The three EU member states with discriminatory online casinos gambling policies include: Sweden, the Netherlands, and now Germany. Some in the industry speculate that Austria may join that list although that remains speculation at this point.

The European Commission continues to put pressure on the German government to reverse the ban – should that happen Get Minted has commented that it would consider reentering the German online casinos gambling industry. But until Germany reverses the current gambling ban all players based out of Germany will be blocked from even logging into the Get Minted site after March 1st.