Europe News - Page 91

International News Brief: Europe's betting industry has made a formal complaint to the EU against a German ban on online gambling.

International News Brief: The businessman behind the proposed casino for Shannon said that the chips are not down yet on his plan.

International News Brief: Russia’s Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov inked a ruling to set up a gambling zone, Azov-City, in the Scherbinovsky district of Krasnodar area and the Azov district of Rostov region, the RF government’s press service reported.

International News Brief: More than 300 slot machine halls have stopped operating in St. Petersburg, Russia, since Jan. 1, according to local officials.

GTECH Global Services Corporation has signed a four-year contract extension to continue providing software licensing and additional software products and services to Veikkaus Oy, the operator of the Finnish National Lottery.

International News Brief: The £40 million Great Leighs Racecourse in England heralds what promoters are calling a renaissance in British racecourses.

International News Brief: A Finnish billionaire who inherited a fortune from the arms trade and has extensive gambling interests in Las Vegas has emerged as one of UK Conservative Party’s major financial backers.

International news brief: Alderney is experiencing a flood of applications from online gambling companies eager to set up in the Channel Islands tax haven following changes to the UK’s legislation on internet poker and casinos.

International news brief: Totesport Casino, an internet arm of government-owned bookmaker the Tote, is switching its operations to the offshore tax haven of Alderney.

International news brief: States ratify an accord that preserves the country’s state monopoly for lotteries and most forms of Web-based gambling.

International News Brief: A huge gambling city which will rival Las Vegas is to be built in the Spanish desert.

Income Access and Gold Mobile Casino have announced that their WAP affiliate program will be targeting the French market with a new site.

International News Brief: Europe is set to get its own version of Las Vegas in a desert region of eastern Spain where developers plan to build 32 hotel-casinos, two theme parks, a racecourse and stadium over the next decade.

The Nuts Poker League has launched its very own online poker room with the assistance of leading managed service provider Inside Gaming.

BingoBase.com and The Daily Star Online have teamed up to offer The Daily Star Bingo Comparison Section.

Nordictra, which develops Internet-based financial products, has engaged HiQ as a partner to design a new platform for online gaming based on quoted stock prices.

Poker Pro Europe magazine is expanding its presence in the UK in a big way.

Online Poker Pro Scandinavia, a new magazine devoted exclusively to Internet poker, is now the largest poker publication in Scandinavia.

International News Brief: European trade chief says US should let foreign companies into its online gaming market, instead of trying to compensate for shutting them out.

International News Brief: Norway's government proposes amendment to gambling laws to make it illegal for Norwegian financial institutions to process payments for online gaming websites.