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October 23, 2007
Signs are beginning to mount that the French government is serious about changing its stance on its policy regarding online gambling and the maintaining of a state-run gambling monopoly. The French interior minister Michele Alliot-Marie is being reported in Forbes magazine that he is partial to the liberalization of online gambling with a view to giving French casinos a presence “… in these new markets without lowering the level of vigilance that operators and the state must maintain on the quality and offering of games." The comments may offer hope to the online bingo community that French markets may be opening up. Online bingo operators and various online bingo halls will be aware that France currently operates a strict state-run monopoly which severely restricts access to the French gambling market for non-French companies. Free online bingo and bingo online games is part of an industry that the European Union (EU) treaty says is covered by freedom of trade obligations agreed to by member states, an issue that challenges the legality under EU agreements of a French state-run gambling monopoly. European regulators continue to pressurize the French over their current policy of restricting international online gambling operators from some markets. However, the French gambling monopolies Francaise des Jeux and PMU continue to justify their control of the gambling industry through claims that gambling should be regulated. Written by John Witherspoon – How about playing bingo online? The best free online bingo games are just one click away.
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