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To Legalize or Not

The push for a unified stance on the online casino gambling industry in the European Union is becoming increasingly difficult for officials as they try to contend with national identities and nations that are just flatly refusing to comply with an open EU market. The European Commission has long asserted that it has the right to force non-compliant EU member states into compliance with free trade policies concerning the online casinos. There are roughly a dozen countries though that simply refuse to kowtow to the Commission’s authority in this matter. To further complicate the issue now, the Advocate General for the European Court of Justice, Paulo Mengozzi, while seemingly supporting an open gambling market has admitted that the policies that would take are exceedingly difficult to form.

Basically, Mengozzi really seemed to side with the Commission’s stance on the online casinos, being that the EU needs to keep a completely open market for free and fair trade practices. More recently though, Mengozzi’s comments actually give a certain amount of leniency in the situation for countries that can find a legitimate loophole through which their monopolies apply. That means that member-states that have long claimed that the monopolies are in place because of safety concerns for citizens may have a legitimate right to keep the monopoly and force foreign online casino competition out of the market.

The European Commission has been aggressively pushing for a huge opening of the EU market for about three years now; several EU member states have heeded the Commission’s warnings and requests and opened their markets quite recently. Other states though are waiting for the ECoJ to force them to alter their protectionist online casino regulations and restrictions.