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Germany May Open for Online Casinos

The German government has adamantly refused to budge in the negotiations between the European Commission and the German officials. The Commission has really worked hard over the past several years to negotiate EU member-states into compliance with the Commission’s stance that the EU market should be a free and open market place for online casinos to operate. The Commission’s view was not widely popular with the dozen or so countries operating gambling monopolies. Germany is one of the dozen countries that has refused to come to the negotiation table and adamantly asserts its right to create a state monopoly in the interest of protecting gamblers.

Interestingly though, the German ban of offshore online casinos is less than a year in effect and already it looks as though the ban will crumble internally rather than face the voluntary repeal that the Commission has asked for. The German ban allowed for only the state monopoly to operate in Germany’s several states. Now one state, Shleswig-Holstein, is breaking the ranks and could potentially crumble the current regulations that prevent foreign gambling companies, as well as other state companies, from competing for any of the German gambling market.

Shleswig-Holstein is the first German state to reject the ban and instead embrace the concept of a more open and competitive gaming market. Shleswig-Holstein has withdrawn its agreement and started in motion what analysts predict will be a strong rend in the German market. The German government claims the online casino ban is in place to protect German gamblers, but it’s actually motivated mostly by the money-making potential of a gambling monopoly.