On July 1st, 2021, the State Treaty on the New Regulation of Gaming in Germany (State Treaty on Gaming 2021 - GlüStV 2021) came into force. Now the permission for an event of sports betting, online poker and virtual slot machine games is granted on application.

The Remote Gambling Association has written to the Hellenic Gaming Commission to ask it to stop reviewing the licences of companies held by legitimate operators in Greece. The trade association believes that the real reason for interviewing the operators who have been granted an interim online gambling licence...

Under the new Interstate Treaty on Gambling 2012, 20 sports betting licenses will be awarded. When this might eventually happen, remains still open. The deadline for the first step has been prolonged once. The deadline for the second step has now been prolonged for the second time (and the end is not near).

Washington, DC (November 17, 2011) – Former Senator Alfonse D’Amato, Chairman of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, today testified before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee on the future of online gaming and its potential impact on Indian tribes. “Indian Country has long been an important stakeholder in the American gaming history.

Second in the chain of stylish Vincendo outlets opens in Meran with 60 Video Lottery Terminals (VLTs). Casinos Austria International has opened the second in its new chain of Vincendo mini casinos in northern Italy. Set at the eastern end of the spa plaza in Meran, the new venue was completed in just five months and celebrated its official opening on 29 April 2011. After the ceremonial cutting of the red ribbon, guests at the gala opening were treated to a superb evening of entertainment and culinary delights by top chef Albert Gross

Vienna - As one of the first operators, bwin, the world's leading online gaming provider, has been granted French online gaming licenses. Issued by the French regulator ARJEL, the online sports betting license entitles the French subsidiary bwin Entertainment Services (B.E.S. SAS) to offer online sports betting to French customers starting on 9 June 2010.

Istanbul, Turkey (January 21, 2010) - The Spor Toto Teskilat Mudurlugu (State Sports Betting Organization) has auctioned another three sports betting licenses, totaling 5 online operators. And 5 more licenses will be auctioned later. Presently three players are operating actively on the online betting market in Turkey: 
- Bilyoner.com, co-owned by Çukurova Holding’s Demir Toprak and Greece’s Intralot (founded on 13 June, 2005): Nesine.com, owned by the Dogan Group (founded 11 July 2006);
- Misli.com, entered the market some months ago and is an initiative of Misli Elektronik sans Oyunlan ve Yay AS:

Washington, DC (October 29, 2009) –The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide and more than 25,000 in Massachusetts, testifies today before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies calling for licensing and regulation of online poker.

At this year’s FER INTERAZAR gaming show, held from September 23-25 in Madrid, Austrian Gaming Industries GmbH (AGI), wholly owned subsidiary of Novomatic AG and its 100-percent subsidiary, the local Novomatic Gaming Spain S.A., will be presenting the latest novelties and performance-leading products for Spanish gaming markets.

The Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) is about to change ist licensing cost structure for companies licensed inthe jurisdiction, eGaming Review reported. The AGCC currently operates a GBP 70'000 annual flat rate for operators and suppliers licensed onthe island. The new structure would be based on the amount of net gaming revenues generated by the licensed companies...

The Gaming Sub-Committee with Games and Draws of the House of Representatives refines the legal opinion about the law on the matter, which will not include table games, informed the coordinator of the legislative instance, Armando García Méndez. The Social Democrat legislator anticipated that the Sub-Committee will do anything possible to have the report ready the following week, to present it to the tribune to be debated.

The Caribbean country of Antigua and Barbuda, the first known country to establish online gambling is moving to strengthen its regulations as it relates to the industry. The Directorate of Offshore Gaming, a division of the Financial Services Regulatory Commission in the online gambling jurisdiction of Antigua and Barbuda has announced...