Card Player publishes survey of European online poker industry
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CardPlayer.com published a handy cliff notes to the current political state of online poker in Europe, where the legal picture is understandably muddled as the EU tries to piece together a coherent policy out of the wildly varying approaches taken by member nations.
The Cardplayer article, written by Brendan Murray, offers a quick drill down of the major movers in the EU when it comes to online poker. Excerpt:
It was never going to be easy to reconcile the interests of the 27 member states of the European Union with the goal of a single economic market, but Internal Markets Commissioner Charlie McCreevy probably never envisioned it would be this hard.
Since the start of 2008, he has watched on as Germany banned online gaming, France stepped back from its hard-line position, Austria instituted a state-run poker room, Netherlands planned the same but got cold feet, Finland considered banning online poker but then suggested the Swedish state-monopoly model may be the way forward, while Sweden’s arbitrary edifice showed signs of crumbling under unrelenting pressure from the European Commission.
