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Online Gambling in Europe: Popular Sports and How to Bet Europe has been a gambling hub for thousands of years. It's widely believed that the ancient Greeks introduced sports betting, which the Romans later adopted. Betting still prevails as one of Europeans' most popular pastime activities. In case you're looking for a…

On 3 February 2022, the Hungarian government notified the European Commission of its intention to end the current monopoly of the public gaming operator (the fully state-owned Szerencsejáték Zrt.) to organise remote gambling and liberalise the remote gambling sector. Based on the Draft Laws communicated to the Commission (TRIS notifications no.…

i Legislation and jurisprudence The legal and regulatory framework is essentially built around the two pillars of the gambling policy: one set of rules applies to lotteries and another to games of chance (in the strict sense of the word). Games of chance are regulated by the Act, which is further implemented by a number of Royal Decrees. The…

i Legislation and jurisprudence As explained in Section I.i, the basic legal framework for gambling in Germany is the Interstate Treaty 2021, which was introduced on 1 July 2021 and marks the fourth attempt of the German states to create uniform and EU-law-compliant gambling regulation. The first amendment of the Interstate Treaty took place in…

Between 2014 and 2018 the Hungarian Gambling Authority ("HGA") had actively sanctioned international operators for online gambling services provided towards Hungarian customers. Hundreds of litigations were commenced to challenge the numerous sanctioning resolutions of the authorities by the international operators. In the wake of CJEU judgements…