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Pressing Hard for Online Casino Ban

A sudden alliance in the French online casino gaming industry has several of the prominent French gaming companies teaming up to force fourteen foreign online casinos out of the French market with a ban from the French courts. The French gambling industry is still closed to foreign gambling competition until the regulations fully pass and are implemented throughout the country. That being said, fourteen online casinos have defied the policies and are current accessing the French market and offering full chance games. The French operators are livid and are asking the French courts to ban the fourteen companies from licensing in the French market for a set period of time.

The fact of the matter is, it’s just not likely to go down very well if the French courts do attempt to ban the foreign online casinos and even less likely to end well if the courts punish these gaming sites. France has walked a fine line over the past year – the country is still in violation of EU policies by not allowing foreign online casino sites to legally operate in the market. Although the French government has relented and agreed to alter the regulations, they have neither passed nor taken effect at this point, which leaves the foreign gambling companies at a loss.

It’s a technicality at this point – France has to open the market to foreign online casinos, but they haven’t yet. Companies like Bwin and Unibet are but two of the fourteen companies listed in the suit – if the French gaming operators win these companies could be expelled from the market and forced to stay out of the French market for as long as two years.