sharpgambler wrote:
But, given all promotion given to the games by european gvernements, Private companies are saying to EU Commission that under free rules they have the right to explore the market and that government monopolies don’t make sense. At this time EU is investigating the issue because in France there is a governement abuse because they promote gambling outside their borders.
Exactly what I was saying.
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And another important thing, although some countries are considering it illegal, in most cases it is not a crime punished with prison but rather with fines.
In France there has been an official communication from the govenrment on 18 October that they want to “do exactly as USA” (yes, that is what is written by the secretary themselves), and that they will enforce severe punishments (yes to keep their monopoly).
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I would also like to say that a law like what was approved in USA would never been approved in Europe. The reason is that EU operates under free market rules. If in Europe, it was allowed for a private company to operate a land based casino, they would never ban online versions. Any European court would taken down that law. Please understand that the question in Europe is that ALL the gambling market is operated by the Governement. There is no Vegas here.
Frankly I live in France and in France the EU is seen as a joke, in fact. France do lots of things in contrary of the EU rules and law. I won’t be surprised if they will do what they want about opening online gambling (yes, I understand that gambling itself is the question) to the market. Plus, they have said that they will do this to COMPLY with EU requests.. In fact, they just try to get around.