[Bloomberg] Online gambling will be banned in Germany starting Jan. 1 as part of an accord with states that preserves the country’s state monopoly for lotteries and most forms of betting.All 16 German state legislatures voted by mid-December to approve the new online-betting laws, which the states negotiated after the Federal Constitutional Court overturned earlier rules.The new rules ban any form of Web-based gambling or brokering of games over the Internet.
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