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International News Brief: The European Commission will censure France, Greece and Sweden this week for restrictions they have put on sports gambling, sources close to the matter said Monday.

International News Brief: Volunteer organisations and charities in Norway such as the Red Cross have for years made oodles of money by operating their own slot machines, but authorities are about to put an end to that.

Atronic, reports a manufacturing and licensing agreement with Pockaj d.o.o., a Slovenia based company well known for its position of leadership in the creation of the high profile, multiplayer electronic "ALFASTREET" roulette stations.

International News Brief: European football shirt sponsorship has emerged as the bizarre battleground for an increasingly bitter fight between offshore internet gambling groups and a handful of continental regulators.

International News Brief: A leading cycle team sponsored by online gambling firm Unibet has been excluded from the Tour de France because French law forbids advertising by foreign gaming companies.

Slovenia's lawmakers will next month start debating changes to gaming and business-ownership laws that would allow Harrah's Entertainment to partner on a $1 billion casino development near the Italian border.

GTECH Corporation has been selected to provide 600 Imagine terminals to Loterie Nationale of Belgium, a state-owned company that administers and operates national lottery games in Belgium.

International News Brief: Kieren Fallon, who made a winning return to racing in Ireland last week after serving a six-month ban, says the break could add years to his career.

International News Brief: Small casino operators have failed in their High Court challenge against plans for 17 new casinos across the UK.

bwin is pleased to announce a new partnership starting on 1 July 2007 as official main sponsor of Real Madrid, the top Spanish football club.

From June 1st, Bluff Europe will be available on newsstands throughout the UK, bringing its circulation to 34,000 throughout Europe.

International News Brief: Czech towns that regulate the operation of gambling machines want to have the right to restrict all gambling on their territory embedded in a new law on lotteries, representatives of the Association of Municipalities Against Gambling said.

The EFTA Court emphasize that an international provider cannot be denied access to any market if that country's monopolistic system is neither appropriate, proportionate nor necessary.

International News Brief: How laws establishing special gambling zones around Russia will affect the development of the hotel industry is dividing analysts and industry experts.

International News Brief: Tessa Jowell has poured cold water on Tony Blair and Blackpool's hopes of a brace of supercasinos by stating there will only be one.

International News Brief: Major governing bodies are looking forward to a multimillion-pound windfall from the gambling industry after the government agreed to support demands for bookmakers to contribute a share of their profits to sport.

International News Brief: Lawyers representing the British Casino Association are challenging the legality of a transitional order which paved the way for 17 new casinos, including the first Las Vegas-style 'super-casino'.

eCOGRA has become one of the first organisations to be approved by the Minister responsible for Gambling of the Government of Gibraltar.

International News Brief: The minister in charge of gambling has admitted the government has `not got a position' on how to take forward Manchester's supercasino bid.

The forthcoming UK Bet Show 2007, scheduled for 14-16th September 2007 at The NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom, has been postponed until 2008.