Europe News - Page 99

The Ministry of Culture and Sport wants Finland to open a state-run online poker room. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health opposes the idea. And no one is sure why they're talking about it in the first place.

International News Brief: Ladbrokes has ditched plans to break into the UK casino market in a blow for government plans to issue 16 new casino licenes to local authorities.

Next generation poker room PKR is looking for the best of the best to take to the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour main event when it hits London this March.

International News Brief: The owners of the Opera House Casino have welcomed the support of Scarborough Civic Society for their planned £70 million family entertainment venue in the heart of the town.

International News Brief: The owners of the Opera House Casino have welcomed the support of Scarborough Civic Society for their planned £70 million family entertainment venue in the heart of the town.

PokerHeaven.com player Juha-Rauno Lampila has won the first major European tournament of 2008 - the Helsinki Freezeout.

Finland's Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is planning to introduce an amendment that would allow Internet gamblers to claim back their losses from online poker services, credit card companies or the player that took their money.

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.