Vienna, Austria, is set to host two of the gaming industry’s most significant events next week, bringing together top professionals from the lottery and iGaming sectors.

Alaska voters will be asked Tuesday whether they want to create a Gaming Commission within the state Department of Revenue, resolving a bitter fight between pro- and anti-gambling forces. The seven-member commission would have authority to expand gambling by allowing slot machines, poker rooms, lotteries or any form of waging game.

Switzerland's 19 casinos registered higher revenues than lotteries for the first time last year, the federal commission in charge of gambling says. The casinos earned CHF 955 million last year, while lotteries took in CHF 900 million, the commission said in a report released Tuesday. Casino revenues in 2006 rose 9.2 per cent from the previous year while those from lotteries increased less than five per cent.

Brussels, 6 March 2007 - European Lotteries welcomes today’s judgement of the European Court of Justice on the Placanica case which recognises that Member States can decide to limit gambling and betting activities through a licensing system with a single or multiple operators and whereby the licensee(s) must be able to make a sufficiently attractive offer including advertising and the use of new distribution methods to execute its channelling task. (See §55 of the judgement)