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Online Casinos Wage War

The European Commission has really spent a while now negotiating with roughly a dozen EU member states that have restrictive land and online casino gambling regulations and legislation. Some countries willingly opened up their borders to foreign competition in the market, others did so begrudgingly after Commission threatened to take the case all the way to the highest European court, the European Court of Justice, and still a few other nations simply refuse to open up their borders to land and online casinos that would compete with state monopolies. The European gambling companies are now beginning to wage a bit of a war against the nations that have blocked access to gambling companies from other EU nations. Betfair in particular has announced that it is going to take on the Dutch government until appropriate change in Dutch regulations are passed.

Betfair is a major European online casino gambling and betting operator. The company has its key market in the UK and Ireland but has high hopes of moving into other EU markets in the coming years. The Dutch government has really issued a bit of a slap in the face to the European Commission with its refusal to alter the legislation that supports the state land gambling and betting monopoly. Not only has the Dutch government refused to alter legislation, like Germany, the nation is actually actively looking for more effective ways to keep the land and online casinos out of the Dutch market.

Betfair plans to actively take on the Dutch government and take this case all the way through the Dutch courts if need be and further to the Dutch Supreme Court and the European Supreme Court if the need arises before the Dutch authorities alter the restrictive regulations.