The Interstate Treaty on Gambling 2021 means the start of a new era. Online gambling, such as virtual slot machines, sports betting, etc., is permissible and therefore legal under certain conditions.

With the re-regulated German and Dutch online gambling markets to open soon, several publicly listed online gambling operators have already announced their interest in entering these markets.

Both Sachsen-Anhalt and Saarland have now ratified Germany's new State Gambling Treaty (GlüStV 2021). The ratification by Sachsen-Anhalt is particularly important as this state will be the proposed seat of the new national gambling regulator.

At the beginning of March the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/212 of 13 December 2017 came into force. Through this amendment, the European Commission added Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, and Tunisia to the list of "high-risk third countries".

In a ground-breaking decision (matter “Ince” – C-336/14 –), the European Court of Justice (“CJEU”) declared that German criminal authorities must not prosecute intermediaries of sports betting services, as the respective stipulations penalising private operators in Germany are incompliant with EU law.

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.

The other shoe dropped on Full Tilt Poker last week, ending any hope that former customers could recoup their deposits and launching another effort by U.S. online poker interests to establish a legal internet poker industry with a strict regulatory system. The U.S. Department of Justice last week amended the original Full Tilt indictment, issued on April 15—“Black Friday”— that effectively ended Full Tilt in the U.S.

Belgium’s new online gambling rules introduce stricter licensing and sanctions, but vague provisions leave operators facing major regulatory uncertainty.

In its third attempt it should now be successful: the revised law (“Glücksspieländerungsstaatsvertrag”) shall implement the legislator’s objectives definitely, legally secure and in line with the constitution as well as with European law: regulation of the market, protection of the consumers against gambling addiction and securing government revenue, even though seven private licensees will be given a slice of the pie. Not only in view of the present opinion of the European Commission of July 18, 2011 on the revised draft it remains doubtful whether these and further objectives will be achieved.

The Netherlands moves toward reforming its strict online gambling ban, with new political momentum for licensing internet poker, lotteries, and remote betting.

Washington, DC (July 28, 2010) –The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, today applauded passage of H.R. 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, by the House Financial Services Committee. The bipartisan 41-22 vote demonstrates that sensible regulation of Internet gaming is gaining support in Congress while prohibition continues to fail.

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.