One the countries in Europe that had been very serious about cracking down on online gambling has now decided to take another look at the whole area. The Dutch government has put together a committee to review the whole area. The remit of the board will include both the areas of new regulation as well [...]

The Luxembourg based European Court of Justice is taking a very close look at the situation with regard to online gambling in Holland. At the current time, the country technically disallows all forms of online gambling except for sports betting. This in itself is not the cause of the problem but rather the fact that [...]

In the United States, one of the most memorable historical elements of the great depression of the 1930s was the prohibition of alcohol. To say the least the government was keen on making it work but instead eventually had to repeal the ban an admit that it was never going to work. This of course [...]

When it comes to the subject of online gambling, the difficulty of aligning national laws with European legislation continues. France had had some real problems with getting it’s proposed domestic online gambling legislation to line up with the direction that is envisaged by The European Union. There have been a number of difficulties wit regard [...]

The global economic downturn has created all sorts of new situations that would’ve previously been unthinkable. Virtually all of the major international financial systems have been changed beyond recognition and there is no way that anybody could have foreseen the circumstances that have now become the new financial reality. When the crisis originally hit it [...]

We have been hearing quite a bit about the global economic downturn recently. When the recession originally took the global economy by storm, it was thought that the possibility of a removal of the online gambling ban would have to be put on the back burner. Barney Frank has been the main advocate of introducing [...]