MEXIM will be present at the “Theme Parks & Fun Games Show” in Dubai from April 26 – 28 2005, STELLA International at the World of Entertainment in Prague from April 26 – 28 2005, and both companies will exhibit at the Andalusian Gaming & Gambling Expo in Malaga from 27 – 29 April 2005.

Albany - Gov. George Pataki yesterday abandoned his legislation for five casinos in the Catskills and instead will push for just one. The surprise reversal is a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's March 29 decision limiting the sovereign rights of Indian tribes, forcing the administration to "re-evaluate" its deals with four of the tribes.

Statistically speaking, every second German aged between 18 and 64 plays the national lottery three times a month. In 2004 the ‘German National Lottery and Football Pools Block’, which unites all 16 of the regional lottery companies, achieved a total turnover of € 8.4 billion. Some 90% of this was booked through the roughly 26,000 coupon acceptance points in Germany.

Austrian Gaming Industries GmbH (AGI) has further consolidated its market position in Slovenia as the recently opened Casino Tolmin relies fully on the quality of the products from AGI.

Espelkamp. „The 25th jubilee of the Gauselmann AG is a visible expression for the unique success story of the family owned and operated group“, said the Joint Chairmen of the Board Paul and Michael Gauselmann.

As a member of ULYS, Mr. Keuleers (LL.M) writes publications about the european gaming law for the ISA-CASINOS PA. ULYS is an international Law Firm with permanent offices in Brussels and Paris and is integrated in a virtual network of leading gaming, media & entertainment experts.

Live daily sports transmissions, gaming entertainment and recreation in an Egyptian ambiance: Casino Admiral Prater, Europe's largest and most modern themed sports betting casino was opened under the motto "Come In and Win" on 18 March 2005 timed to the spring opening of the Vienna Prater entertainment operations.

Lübbecke. A thorough success is how Rolf Klug, member of the board of the Merkur pillar, summed up the participation of the Gauselmann Group subsidiaries STELLA INTERNATIONAL and MEXIM at the ENADA SPRING 2005 in Rimini, Italy, from March 10 to 13. “Our objective in Rimini was to continue the European market development strategy which we have been implementing now for several years, not only on the high growth markets of Eastern Europe and Spain but also by penetrating the Italian market with innovative products from Gauselmann.

As already announced at last year’s Annual General Meeting, as a logical consequence of changes in the ownership structure of BETandWIN.com Interactive Entertainment AG, both Carsten Koerl, founder and former Executive Board member, and Michael Tojner, venture capitalist and Executive Board member of Global Equity Partners, have resigned from their positions on the company’s Supervisory Board.

Not even a year after the landmark European Gambelli decision, a new remote gaming case is pending before the European Court of Justice (ECJ). While the final decision in the Gambelli case is still pending before the national court, national authorities in various Member States had to judge on the de facto consistency of the national gaming policy and its compatibility with European law. The conclusion of one year post-Gambelli case-law is that the Gambelli and Lindman requirements are applied in a very diverging manner. In the Betfair appeal case, it was even insinuated that Gambelli was not relevant!

Long lasting depression of the stock market is to be contrasted with the fresh boom in the betting exchanges. Financial bets and digital options are becoming more and more popular particularly among risk-loving private investors. On the one hand, numerous small investors are still deeply disappointed as a result of the stock exchange crash, particularly as at the high point of the stock exchange fever at the end of the 90’s, there was a progressive decline in the previous upward market trend as a result of the discovery of the concealed actual value of the securities.

The Local Court of Offenbach (AG Offenbach) holds the Hessian Sports Betting Act to be unlawful - The Administrative Court of Darmstadt (VG Darmstadt) will decide on this within the next few days. In November 2004, Lotto Hessen announced rejoicingly on its website (www.lottohessen.de), that: "(The) controlled campaign of the illegal (Note: this is used by the State providers to refer to "private") sports betting providers, with the aim of creating a legal uncertainty in the sport betting market, has collapsed."