The European Commission plans to decide within weeks whether to step up legal action against Germany over that country’s recent move to ban online gambling, a spokesman for the commission in Brussels said Tuesday.The German law came into effect on Jan. 1, banning Web-based betting, with the exception of wagers on horseracing, and restricting other forms of gambling to state-run operators. The law sets Germany apart from other European Union countries, some of which have been moving to open state-run betting monopolies to private competitors, and moves it closer to the United States, where the Bush administration has tried to stamp out online gambling.
http://iht.com/articles/2008/01/15/technology/gamble.phpBetting industry urges EU action vs. German ban [Reuters]
Europe’s online gaming industry filed a complaint with the European Commission on Tuesday, saying Germany’s ban on online gambling breaks EU law on the free movement of services.
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