Romania: all our coverage

Paddy Power's owner expects up to 1,400 redundancies from a restructure of its UK and Ireland business, eight days before a Budget that could raise machine duty. The tax set the size and the timing; the shape looks like the cost programme Flutter was already running.

France's regulated gambling market barely grew in the first half, and only because online sports betting had a World Cup June. The regulator now says the full-year figure depends on whether a record 5.85 million active online accounts keep playing after the tournament, and on a lottery operator whose French revenue is shrinking.

Bucharest handed licensing power to local councils, and they have used it. An entire county has voted to phase out gaming halls, Timisoara has banned them outright, and one operator has said publicly that nobody loses their job.

Vlad-Cristian Soare was dismissed on Friday and Valentin-Ioan Tomescu appointed in his place, both in the same Official Gazette. Soare had been in post fifteen months, and arrived because his predecessor left over audit failures.

From blacklisting 300 illegal sites to launching the first state-funded problem gambling treatment programme, Romania's ONJN has used its opening mandate year to signal it means business. The hard work of sustaining that momentum now begins.

A €1.2 billion market growing at 15% year-on-year and still less than 60% online. Superbet has spotted the opportunity, and it is moving fast.

FDJ United has shifted its online betting and gaming strategy from acquisitions to technology transformation, with CEO Stéphane Pallez outlining accelerated internal platform migration, stack consolidation, and stricter focus on platform control as tax and regulatory pressure intensifies across Europe.

Casino games aggregator St8 has gone live with its first partner in the United Kingdom, following a successful integration with Annexio-owned lottery

Superbet Group has announced a significant management reshuffle that will see its founder, Sacha Dragic, take over as the sole CEO of the operator group,

London, UK - 26th September 2025 - The controversy surrounding Superbet's massive €30 million payout in Romania has deepened significantly, as the game's B2B

Romania’s government, under Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, has enacted a sweeping fiscal package that includes a controversial increase in gambling taxes,