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Western Europe Casinos and Gambling

Most Western European countries attempt to abide by guidelines adopted by the European Commission when updating their gambling laws. In practice, individual nations are free to establish governmental or private monopolies or allow for more than one operator to be licensed.

Pre-Brexit, the UK already had a robust regulatory framework with stringent controls and licensing requirements through their Gambling Commission and the Gambling Act of 2005. The UKGC administers both online and terrestrial casinos and all other forms of betting in Great Britain including the National Lottery, sports betting, and horse racing. However, cross-border protections are virtually non-existent.

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To date, there has been no EU legislation passed that deals specifically with gambling, so individual countries enact their own laws and legislation, mostly in accord with the EU's suggested framework. Most of the EU's focus is on internet gambling as that is the sector that reaches across borders.

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France has a long history of gambling and is home to a thriving casino industry. Most of the casinos are located in the south. See a map and list of all French casinos. Online operators licensed in France are not allowed to offer casino gambling. The people of France simply choose online casinos from the world at large. Monaco has its own government, gambling laws, and illustrious casinos.

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The Spanish Gambling Act of 2011 covers betting in all 17 autonomous communities of Spain. The El Gordo lottery “el Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad” is big business and online gambling is booming especially football betting. The land casinos of Spain see heavy footfall from citizens and visitors alike. There is virtually no region in Spain without a casino.

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Gibraltar, Malta and a few other Mediterranean area countries have casinos as well. Germany has casinos in more than 50 cities along with thousands of slots in various pubs across the country. While poker and slots are everywhere, Germans seem to be most interested in sports betting. Great cities like Berlin and Munich host grand casinos, as well as electronic gaming parlors and the country's perimeter has plenty of casinos near the borders.

Most of the Nordic countries allow gambling, but betting in Norway is tightly controlled with no real casinos there. As much as the peoples enjoy gambling, most of it occurs online in the north.

Lotteries are offered throughout the continent. Click here for more information on el Gordo, Euro Million and all the world's lotteries.

Poker remains popular in Western European card rooms and casinos and more countries are opening their player pools to shared liquidity - yet the dreamed of EU-wide poker room still does not exist.

Some of the world's finest parimutuel facilities are located in Western Europe and each track presents differences and variations US race fans can only dream of.