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Rob van der Gaast Gaming Guru - Page 11US, France and Germany Are No-Go Zones28 September 2006
Senior directors of free enterprise Internet gambling operators should avoid the United States, France and Germany, for arrests may await the traveling top management in these three countries.
Europe is so different from the United States because each member state is constrained by European law. ... (read more)
Eye on Europe - Sept. 22, 200622 September 2006
Swedish Privatization Time -- The Swedish right-wing Alliance, headed by Moderate party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt, on Monday won the Swedish elections, kicking out, after a reign of 12 year, the Social Democrats. The new government will be formed by October 5. Under Reinfeldt, the Moderates have already made ... (read more)
bwin Execs Make Bail, Scheduled to Appear in Court Tuesday18 September 2006
bwin's co-CEOs, Manfred Bodner and Norbert Teufelberger, arrested in Nice on Friday, were released this afternoon on bail of 300,000 euro and await a hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
Francis Teitgen, a former member of the council of the Paris Bar and the National Bar Council, will defend the execs. ... (read more)
Company for Europe's Scrutinized Seven?18 September 2006
The European Commission on April 4, 2006 sent official requests for information on national legislation restricting the supply of sports betting services to seven member states: Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden. Now, some five months later, a spokesman for Services ... (read more)
Unclear Situation in Hungary15 September 2006
The Hungarian Liberal Party (SZDSZ ) wants to privatize the country's national lottery, Szerencsejatek Zrt.
Gábor Kuncze, the chairman of this junior coalition party, is strongly in favor of market-based solutions to public services and cutting taxes. Further, co-liberal Janos Koka, the very active economy and transport minister, is pro privatizing. ... (read more)
Eye on Europe - Sept. 14, 200614 September 2006
Bwin Sponsor Stable -- Sponsoring sports has become a re-discovered tool of the international marketing trade. Heike Mayer, the corporate communications officer of bwin, is willing to put the company’s sponsoring cards on the table. bwin has sponsorhip deals with Equestrian WC Aachen in Germany; FIA WTTC in ... (read more)
Veikkaus Interim Results on Par with Projections8 September 2006
The financial results for the first half of 2006 turned out as expected for Finnish gambling operator Veikkaus Oy.
The company's business activities developed according to plan, Head of Communications Riitta Nissi said. During the first 26 weeks of the year, the Nordic monopoly attained a turnover of 661.6 million euro (a 2.1 percent gain). ... (read more)
Eye on Europe - Sept. 77 September 2006
Cyprus: North & South -- In the last edition of Eye on Europe, I wrote about Vodafone becoming the new mobile operator in Turkish North Cyprus as well as in Greek South Cyprus. For many years direct phone links between the north and south have been blocked, and Vodafone could give positive impulse for the ... (read more)
An Irish Endeavor for Betfair6 September 2006
In moves that signify major steps toward further acceptance in the Ireland, Betfair last week inked deals with the Irish Football Association (IFA) and Horse Racing Ireland (HRI). The impetus behind the agreements, however, was not a recent scandal involving betting on Irish football, as reported by numerous publications.
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Eye on Europe - Sept. 1, 20061 September 2006
Forbidden T-Shirt -- Police stopped a jogger in Dortmund, Germany last week for wearing a bwint-shirt. The officer informed the sweating long distance runner that he should take off his forbidden shirt. The jogger argued that there was still something like freedom of speech in Germany and that he could get sick when he was running without a shirt. ... (read more)
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