There is no doubt that the European states for the most part are moving in the direction of regulation and taxation. Many European states are either in the process of introducing legislation or in the type of review stage that would normally conducted prior to the introduction of new laws. In the broader European context [...]

Where there is money to be made, the lawyers are usually not far behind and the pending arrival of new French legislation to regulate their domestic online gambling market is turning into a real bonanza for the lawyers. Firstly, Casino De France, the representative body of the traditional casino industry has a couple of cases [...]

On the face of it, healthcare and casinos would appear to have very little in common but in t he current economic climate all sorts of dots are being joined up that one would not have previously expected. The Senator from Oregon, Ron Wyden has suggested an innovative idea where taxation garnered from online gambling [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]