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Much of the litigation in the European region is based on so-called "sovereignty" disputes where governments try to protect state monopolies in things like lotteries by denying cross border (Internet) access by companies from other EU states.
It's a dynamic field. Just recently we've seen the Swedish government launch a state monopolised poker site in addition to other online gaming operations, the French have gone international with a state online lottery, there have been constitutional rulings in Germany and ISP blockades in Italy mostly on pretty tenuous grounds.
There have been various important cases, because big gambling groups from EU countries are determined to assert their (EU) rights to offer services across EU borders without let or hindrance.
The *investigative* arm of the EU has this week served notice on several EU states indulging in this sort of exclusion that it is investigating them.
Generally speaking, it's all warming up and getting more and more interesting.
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