Europe News - Page 113

International News Brief: More than 500 gambling establishments will be closed in Moscow City within the next two months for encroachments on the city law.

International News Brief: Empire Online is on the hunt for acquisitions, armed with the £250m it won in a legal settlement with rival PartyGaming this year.

International News Brief: European Union regulators will today issue legal challenges to France, Spain and other governments for hindering takeovers or competition in industries from energy to gambling.

Internataional News Brief: The Lotteries and Gaming Authority is still awaiting an invitation for talks from the Italian gaming authority, three weeks since it launched a blockade of Maltese internet gaming sites.

International News Brief: Gamblers have stayed away from the capital's high-rolling Les Ambassadeurs casino since last year's July bombings on the underground and bus network.

International News Brief: A casino is pushed as another way to ensure Harrogate retains its place in the top five of the UK's league table of conference and exhibition venues.

International News Brief: London Clubs International has sold its Les Ambassadeurs casino in London’s Mayfair to investment vehicle Twinwood for £115 million.

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany declared the state monopoly on sports betting unconstitutional in its widely publicised ruling on March 28th 2006.

Robert Varkonyi, the 2002 World Series of Poker Champion, fought off frostbite to win the InterPoker.com Extreme Poker Challenge Arctic Freeze Out Tournament.

The organizers of the World Poker Congress reports that Steve Lipscomb, president of the World Poker Tour, will deliver a keynote speech at the event.

International News Brief: Proposals to build a super-casino in Wembley are set to be submitted to a government-appointed committee on March 31.

International News Brief: In 2005, Germans spent around 3.3 billion euros gambling and betting online, 35 percent more than the previous year.

International News Brief: This year's World Cup is going to see a 'seismic increase' in gambling ... and that's on top of betting on Big Brother and online poker.

News Brief: Russia"s lower house of parliament passed Friday the first reading of a bill on the government regulation of gambling.

International News Brief: A future Blackpool super casino will be hit with an extra £6 million per year tax bill, it was confirmed yesterday.

International News Brief: Local council bosses are betting on a bumper jobs jackpot if a casino is built in the Wakefield district.

International News Brief: Britain's bookmakers took a blow when the Chancellor imposed licence fees on their betting machines, a move that will cost the industry tens of millions of pounds, and increased the tax on one-armed bandits at arcades and clubs.

International News Brief: The Sportsman, Britain's first new national daily newspaper in 20 years, is betting that a gambling boom fueled by the Internet and televised soccer matches will help it overcome the industry's lackluster advertising growth.

European Lottery Guild, an independent lottery subscription service in operation since 1990, announces their support of the Betfair-Paypal agreement.

Gala Bingo is taking on the global online gaming industry with the launch of its new website.