Michèle Alliot-Marie, the French Minister of the Interior, has revealed the government’s intention to prohibit online gaming websites, in the context of the framework and implementation law for internal security.
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Lichtenstein appears to be on course to open up its online casino and online betting market and is currently looking into the possibility of granting licences to foreign gaming operators.
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In spite of the persistent pressure imposed by the European Commission with a view to opening up the gaming market to competition, 13 out of the 16 German states have ratified a law banning all forms of online betting and online gaming intermediaries.
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The American Justice department has ordered Microsoft, Google and Yahoo to pay fines totalling 31.5 million dollars for allowing the advertising of online gambling since 1997, which is illegal in the USA.
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Norbert Teufelberger, the Joint CEO of the Austrian online betting company Bwin, believes that several clues point to the imminent liberalisation of the European online gaming market, including in France.
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The casino operator Lucien Barrière is anticipating the coming liberalisation of internet casinos by subcontracting the development of its online 3-D gaming site in India.
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Accused of breaching the French gaming monopoly, Petter Nylander, the Swedish CEO of the online gaming operator Unibet, has been arrested and held by the Dutch authorities after a European arrest warrant was issued by France!
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Mark Davies, the President of Betfair, has announced in an interview that his group is ready to take on the challenge of doing business in France.
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The British group PartyGaming has recently announced that its online casino was examining the takeover offers submitted by brick and mortar casinos in Las Vegas.
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The Norwegian Ministry of Culture has officially declared that its country is preparing to enact an anti-gaming law based on the American model that would outlaw any financial transactions with companies offering online casino games, poker or sports betting.
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