The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) is the Brussels-based trade association of leading online gambling operators licensed in the European Union, representing them before EU institutions and national regulators on regulation, taxation, advertising and consumer protection, and publishing annual European market data, channelisation studies and a code of conduct on responsible advertising and sustainable gambling. Its members are among the largest listed operators in Europe.
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The former Secretary General of the European Gaming and Betting Association is the first Director General of the World Gaming and Betting Alliance, a Swiss association whose listed members are bet365, Entain, FDJ United, Flutter and EGBA itself. The Geneva commercial register shows it was founded on 9 July and already had Haijer as a signatory before EGBA announced he was leaving.
The Irish Presidency's revised negotiating box for the EU's 2028 to 2034 budget lists five new revenue sources, and a levy on online gambling is not among them. Europe's racing bodies, who had asked Dublin days earlier to keep horserace betting out of any such levy, welcomed the omission but warn the idea still has strong support in the European Parliament.
A joint statement from the country's bookmaking and gaming associations says the tax floated for the EU's 2028 to 2034 budget would push players to unlicensed sites and cut, not raise, state revenue, and asks instead for uniform EU rules against illegal operators. Malta and EGBA have already objected; the levy would need every member state's consent.
The Gaming Supervisory Authority opened an account, funded it and bet on sports results, then took the evidence to the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court. Internet providers must block the site and payment firms must stop dealing with Adventure One QSS. It is the first prediction market Lithuania has treated as an unlicensed bookmaker, and the 2,204th site it has blocked.
The Dutch regulator says it would rather have waited for the appeal ruling, but the current licences expire on 31 December. If the monopoly falls, revocation will come no sooner than a year after the judgment.
The European Gaming and Betting Association changes leadership on 1 September, with Maarten Haijer stepping down after 13 years as Secretary General. His successor has named the illegal market as the priority.
Europe now has its first common technical framework for detecting risky gambling behaviour. The new EN 18144 standard, published by CEN and backed by the EGBA, gives operators a shared methodology that could reshape how player protection works across the continent.
Seven of Europe’s major gambling regulators have agreed to strengthen joint efforts against illegal online gambling networks, warning that fast-growing
A groundbreaking initiative to create the first-ever pan-European standard for identifying markers of gambling harm has been successfully approved, in a major