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Newsletters - 2008
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Fair access to sports betting markets still far from being a reality
At the end of October, we proudly entered the Greek market by opening new shops in Athens and Thessaloniki to give Greek consumers better value sports betting in a responsible environment. Ten days later, both had been raided by the Greek police....
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Stanleybet Newsletter - Issue 12 - December 2008
At the end of October, we proudly entered the Greek market by opening new shops in Athens and Thessaloniki to give Greek consumers better value sports betting in a responsible environment. Ten days later, both had been raided by the Greek police. Our intermediaries and our customers had been arrested and locked up....
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Stanleybet Newsletter - Issue 11 - September 2008
A battle is being fought at the heart of Europe that has escaped most people's attention. On the one side is European law, the cornerstone of the European Union, applicable across all Member States, upheld by the European Court of Justice and traditionally supported by the European Commission....
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Stanleybet Newsletter - Issue 10 - June 2008
Stanleybet International (SBI) is surprised that the College of Commissioners failed to take further action against Member States who maintain unfair restrictions in their gambling markets at the 4th June 2008 Infringement Proceedings meeting.
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Stanleybet Newsletter - Issue 9 - January 2008
Since the last issue of our Newsletter, a number of significant developments related to sports betting have taken place. The European Court of Justice again highlighted the restrictive Italian practices in the betting sector with Case C-260/04. The highest Court of the EU condemned a 1999 Italian ministerial decree which, by renewing a number of licenses without a tendering procedure, infringed the general...
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