Portal dedicated to the gambling sector from a social and legal point of view, such as lesgilación, CSR and initiatives against gambling addiction.
A study carried out by Japanese academics in an integrated resort in South Korea, would have demonstrated the relationship between winning and problem gambling. More specifically, winning would stimulate reckless gambling behavior, encouraging addiction and related problems. What is true about the results of the [...]
After months of many discussions, comings and goings, including the European Commission giving the green light to the government's text last July, finally the Royal Decree on Commercial Communications of Gambling Activities has been approved in the Council of Ministers. An achievement in the ministerial career [...]
The Spanish Federation of Rehabilitated Gambling Players (FEJAR) has just celebrated the “National Day Without Gambling” on October 29, with the support of important members of the government such as the second vice president Pablo Iglesias and the Minister of Consumption Alberto Garzón. In full consonance with [...]
The services sector has come off very badly from the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus. Hospitality, catering and tourism are very touched all over the world. Brick-and-mortar casinos, gambling halls and betting shops fail to attract the same number of customers [...]
A small Barcelona town in the Vallés Occidental has made headlines for having become the population with the highest per capita income in New Zealand. This is the town of Matadepera. What is the reason for this municipality to be placed at the front of the wealth rankings? One of his most [...]
Finland is one of the few European countries with a state monopoly on gambling and betting. The increase in illegal gambling and the ineffectiveness of measures to combat gambling addiction in the country have reopened the debate about the current system of state monopoly in the country...]
In the midst of the controversies that the new decree on gambling and betting advertising has raised in the sector in our country, the UK Gambling Commission, the regulatory body in the United Kingdom, has agreed with Facebook to establish a series of guidelines [...]
The Minister of Consumption Alberto Garzón has met this Monday the heads of the Autonomous Communities in the Gambling Policy Council, the body of participation and coordination of the State with the territorial bodies in matters of gambling and dependent on the General Directorate of Gambling Regulation [...]
The regulatory authority based on the island of Malta, Malta Gaming Authority (MGA), has just published a regulation differentiating between arcade machines and gambling devices, a distinction that was not explicit in previous provisions. With this guideline, the Maltese regulatory authority wants to [...]
Norway is taking a first step towards unifying the various legislations regulating the betting and gambling sector in the country. After a public consultation, which remains open until the end of September, the Minister of Culture sent the draft national law to the European Commission [...]
According to official statements from the Spelinspektionen, the gaming regulatory body in Sweden, the measures approved by the executive last April to combat gambling addiction in times of coronavirus were not designed to be fully implemented in the market, which makes it difficult to be effective. In [...]
A German company helps users resident in the country to recover the money lost by betting on online gambling. Taking advantage of a legislative loophole, the company claims the return of the deposited money to the payment systems. Do we have a similar measure in New Zealand? We tell you about it in this analysis. “We got your money back...]
The figures are alarming. The number of unemployed is growing worldwide and the hospitality and tourism sectors have been the most affected by the widespread lockdown. Physical casinos have suffered huge losses and the recent opening measures have not served to enhance the result...]
A study by the European Union (EU) would have concluded that the controversial loot boxes or reward boxes should be treated as a problem related to consumer protection, discouraging their link to online gambling legislation. The study, commissioned by the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee...]
The European Commission has given the green light to the draft Royal Decree on commercial communications of the online gambling sector that the Spanish government sent urgently last July with amendments not contained in the first draft of February. The Consumer Minister has announced [...]