How Europe regulates online gambling, country by country and as a system. The course covers the European framework (why the EU harmonises nothing about gambling itself, the Court of Justice case law that produced the licensed-market model, the EU instruments that do bind operators, channelisation as the measure), Great Britain (the 2005 Act, point of consumption, the LCCP rules, the 2023 White Paper and its implementation, duty at 40 per cent), Germany and the Netherlands (the Interstate Treaty, LUGAS and OASIS, the 2026 stake-limit change, KOA and its reversal, the 37.8 per cent tax), the Nordic countries (Denmark's stability, Sweden's tightening and credit ban, Finland's 2027 opening, Norway's defended monopoly), Southern Europe and Belgium (Spain's advertising decree, Italy's concessions and advertising ban, France's casino prohibition, Portugal, Belgium's anchoring and advertising ban), and Central and Eastern Europe, Ireland and the direction of travel.
Written for operators and suppliers serving European markets, for compliance and legal teams who need the framework behind the country pages, and for anyone trying to understand why a product that is lawful in Copenhagen is illegal in Paris and limited to one euro a spin in Berlin.
The through-line is that Europe's regimes converge on one model and diverge on how hard to turn its dials, and that channelisation is the argument every dial is set by.
The Attorney General's Office says it will go to court to force eight former licensees to give their banks the per-player lists the ban requires. The same release cuts the money still owed to bettors from about R$1.2 billion to R$159 million, and does not say how.
Four provincial lottery corporations asked the Supreme Court of Canada on 7 October to overturn the ruling that would let Ontario's poker and fantasy players sit at the same tables as players abroad. The nine judges reserved judgment, and no date has been set for a decision.
Google will let certified online gambling advertisers buy the slot at the top of YouTube's homepage from 21 October, widening a carve-out that has covered only sports betting since 2022. The notice names no markets, and it arrives in a month when European lawmakers are moving to restrict gambling advertising rather than extend it.