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The online casino gambling issue in the European Union is a bit like a time-bomb…time is ticking and there will come a point when the entire debate comes to a head. That’s when someone will clearly come out the winner – and we’re thinking it’ll be the internet gambling companies. State governments in Sweden and Greece have just begun to see the way that the foreign online casinos are looking to fight state governments – they’ll just disregard the blocks and bans and set up shop anyhow. This is how it seems the situation is panning out, at least. The state governments aren’t willing to come to the table in terms of offering other EU licensed gambling sites into the market, so companies are beginning to consider forcing themselves into the market as the appropriate solution.

This tactic has been most visible just last week when the land and online casino bookmaker, Stanleybet, opened a betting shop in Greece that would compete with OPAP, the state-run monopoly. Stanleybet’s actions were illegal according to Greek legislation, but at the same time, the European Commission has consistently asserted that the EU principles and policies support an open gambling market where licensed online casinos and betting companies from any EU country can offer services with any other EU member-state that allows betting.

And the funny thing is, even though the Greek police arrested the Stanleybet employees, they were unable to charge them for their actions and instead simply released all of those involved. A similar case went down several months ago in Sweden, foreign online casinos are willing to simply push themselves into the market with the thought that they would just force the governments to either alter the questionable legislation or face the case going to the European Court of Justice.