Europe News - Page 106

Following the huge success of CAP Euro in London, the organisers have announced a follow up event to take place in Barcelona at the beginning of October immediately following EIG the leading European iGaming event.

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ollowing the development of an alcohol policy and a drug policy, the next step could be that of developing a policy on gambling, Malta’s Minister for the Family and Social Solidarity Dolores Cristina has announced.

International News Brief: Greece arrests nine people in conjunction with internet gambling operations run out of internet cafes in Arta.

The World Poker Tour, which earlier this week scrapped plans to tape the Grand Prix de Paris, will add a stop in Spain to replace the tournament in its Season Six schedule. The tournament will be held at Casino Barcelona, operated by Grup Peralada, in October, 2007.

International News Brief: UK Prime Minister Tony Blair defended the government's stalled casino policy, insisting that the casinos would bring much needed investment and regeneration to some of Britain's regional cities.

International News Brief: Alderney has granted another company a licence to operate online betting on the island.

International News Brief: Tessa Jowell faces fresh embarrassment from her controversial Gambling Act as the UK's poker clubs join forces to challenge the new legislation.

nternational News Brief: Germany's top constitutional court upheld a state-run casino monopoly in Bavaria, ruling the law is properly designed to protect the public.

asy Computing today announced an agreement with Poker Academy, the leading Texas Holdem poker software developer, to publish "Poker Academy Texas Holdem" for the PC in Belgium and the Netherlands.

nternational News Brief: Lukale Investment and Development is also involved in the project to build a vast casino and other entertainment facilities in Bezenye, a Hungarian town of 1,650 people at the Hungarian-Slovakian-Austrian border.

International News Brief: The High Court is to review rules surrounding new UK casinos to answer operators' complaints that existing venues would be hit hard by a planned wave of Las Vegas-style casinos.

At Free Betting Online offers a free list of the most well-known bookmakers in the UK is shown with a breakdown of the "Grand National Free Bets" on offer.

The National Poker League, 2007 Global Circuit Tour kicks off with The Paris Open in France on May 13th at the Cercle Gaillon located near the Arc de Triomphe.

After much anticipation, the qualification tournament dates for the Purple Lounge/Moore magazine poker tour have been released.

Las Vegas gaming operators said Thursday that they expect casino-style resorts will eventually be built in the United Kingdom despite a parliamentary vote against expanded gaming.

MECN’s new study analyses market developments in the period following the state treaty on gambling, Placanica, and the decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court.

International News Brief: Blackpool could yet get a super-casino after peers inflicted a shock defeat on the Government by narrowly rejecting controversial plans for a super-casino in Manchester and 16 other large and small casinos across the country.

ome of poker's most influential and well known stars from the US and across Europe have confirmed their participation in the 26th Irish Poker Open being held at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin over Easter weekend 2007.

International News Brief: Tessa Jowell has refused to drop an all-or-nothing ultimatum to MPs and peers over her plans for 17 new casinos.