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A Year Out

The online casino gambling issues throughout parts of Europe have still not been completely resolved despite the European Commission’s continued efforts in this regard over the past several years. Basically, the Commission contends that EU policies dictate the free trade of goods and services between EU member-states and that state gambling monopolies directly violate this core EU principle. Of the dozen countries that were violating the EU policy several years ago, only a few have since altered the legislation to comply with the mandates and negotiations out of the European Commission. Many countries claim that foreign online casinos pollute the market and prevent the nations from providing a secure gaming experience.

The safety issue is a key argument against the broad online casino gambling industry. The individual states operating a monopoly claim that they can better protect their citizens from the dangers of underage and problem gamblers with a state monopoly. France is the latest of the nations that have operated a monopoly for years but now decided to comply with the Commission’s adamant requests for an open and free gambling industry that gives equal access to foreign online casinos.

There are still several key markets closed to foreign gambling –Scandinavia and Germany seem immune to the Commission’s threats of European Court of Justice action. It’s the ECoJ threat that seemingly caved the French government’s resistance to foreign online casinos –a full opening of the French market should take place as early as the beginning of 2010. Many foreign internet gambling companies are already getting their ducks in a row in preparation for opening of the French market –other gambling sites are focusing their efforts on instead penetrating the closed markets throughout Scandinavia although there are regulations and blocks in place – they are determined to make it through.