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Internal Influence Helps Online Casinos

Germany is one of the controversial European Union member-states that has adamantly refused to negotiate with the European Commission on new policies that would strike down the legalized state monopolies and instead welcome and open and competitive online casino gambling market. Germany has not only maintained its state monopoly, but the country has even gone so far as to strengthen its gambling regulations in the past year to further safe-guard against any outside online casinos entering the German market. Although the Commission has issued warnings to the German government about further action, the monopolies and protectionist policies remain in effect. Now though, change could be closer than ever as one of Germany’s sixteen states, Schleswig-Holstein, is pushing for an opening of the closed German market.

The German Interstate Treaty on Gambling is a national block that prevents any other German state and certainly foreign online casinos from competing with the state German monopoly. Schleswig-Holstein is the Northern-most state in Germany and has out-right called for an end to the current treaty that prevents any German states from licensing their own online casino gambling industries and generating revenue from the industry. Instead, internet betting is the only legal form of internet gambling in the country and the German government receives a healthy share of the revenues from the state-protected monopoly.

But there really is little chance that change is imminent because the German government refuses to acknowledge that the online casino gambling policies are ridiculous and unfair. Germany, like every other EU member-state operating a monopoly, contends that the state monopoly is the only way that the government can fully protect underage and problem gamblers. There is a hard fight ahead of the European gambling industry, but with the support of Schleswig-Holstein, the internet gambling industry may have a chance of affecting change.