World Casino News brings you complete coverage of the European gaming markets, openings and closings, regulatory changes, mergers & acquisitions, and finance. You'll find coverage of major industry events and trade shows, as well as casinos for sale from Malta to Riga and beyond.
Much of the news in this section comes out of the UK, due to the mature gambling market and robust licensing requirements there. We also cover partnerships and game distribution deals in the online sector so players will know where to find their favorite games, and industry executives can follow emerging and continuing trends.
Germany’s 16 state ministers have agreed that the number of available sports betting licenses will be doubled but a rewrite of the controversial interstate gambling treaty was rejected.
Leaders of Germany’s ...
Online casinos and bingo rooms licensed in the United Kingdom may need to adjust their budgets and promotions to take into account a 15% general betting duty to be levied on them beginning August 17, 2017. Chan...
Switzerland’s casinos say they haven’t been profitable since 2007 and to help stop the continued loss, want to add sports betting and lottery options.
The Swiss Federation of Casinos (SFC) released its annua...
Most countries in the European Union have strict legislature that bans smoking in public and harsh penalties for those that violate this law. Romania just recently became that 18th country in the European Union...
As expected, officials in Nicosia today announced the final three contenders for a single casino license in Cyprus. The preferred bidders who will enter the final round with a clean slate and equal footing to w...
The Administrative Court of Appeal has ruled on the software firms previously reported dispute with the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket).
NetEnt’s appeal has been approved by the Administrative Court of App...
As it was expected, the House of Representatives gave thumbs up for the first Cyprus casino license on March 10, 2016. The idea to build an integrated casino resort in the country had 28 votes in favor, 16 abst...
As reported in September, the Selena World Resort under development in the Primorye Integrated Entertainment Zone (PIEZ) near Vladivostok, Russia will be comprised of three separate phases of development, each ...
Having been fully translated from English into Greek, regulations for the first legal casino in Cyprus are set to be heard before the full House of Representatives on March 10. The delay is seen to have been ca...
There were once over 30,000 legal and illegal casinos operating in Russia, with as many as 4,000 of them being sanctioned. In 2007 special gambling zones were created, mostly away from population centers, and i...
Another shortlist of operators who may be selected to enter the final round of competition for the sole casino license to be issued in Cyprus later this year has possibly been leaked, this time to the Greek lan...
Two former top executives at Bwin.party, an online gambling operator, face bribery charges related to a failed application in 2007 for a Turkish sports betting license.
Austrian media outlet Trend reported t...
Local media reported today that the British Bases have destroyed gambling equipment and paraphernalia seized from illegal gambling establishments in Cyprus. Gambling is illegal in South Cyprus, the UN controlle...
In a filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange last week MelcoLot Ltd, a subsidiary of Lawrence Ho's Melco International Development Ltd announced that they are no longer seeking an agreement to build a casino i...
The Estonian Competition Authority recently gave OEG approval to acquire AS MC Kasiinod, an Estonian casino operator. The acquisition is 100% complete, with OEG the full shareholder of the casino operator, whic...