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Originally Posted by NINzent
those segregations are not only against the EU mentality but also against EU law, ****ing useless scum bureaucrats
Totally!
The Portuguese law, the one I can speak for is even completely opposite from what they are trying to implement now with this segregation. As I've said enough times on this thread and I'll keep reminding it, the Portuguese gambling law was passed by the last right wing government. The minister at the time said that the law, by not mentioning anything against the international liquidity, allowed it. And that was the intention the whole time because they knew the tiny Portuguese market need it to be competitive and attractive. I recall the minister being very involved within the community and replied to every message and they would always hit this point. He knew we need an open market in order to keep the games attractive and that was the only way to generate revenue in form of taxes. Then we finally had the law approved. GREAT! There was nothing there against any shared liquidity like the Spanish law had for instance. The Spanish law clearly stated that any market should be ring fenced.
Then, very few months after, there was a new government formed by 3 left wing parties that combined themselves to have a majority government. The new left wing prime minister said at the time he would strive for a monopoly by Santa Casa, a national institution that has the exclusive for lottery games. And he wasn't joking. Soon after SRIJ changed focus, completely ignored the (back then) new gambling law and invented some need for partnerships. It was made to favor a selected few good friends in land based casinos and other parties that had no interest in an attractive online market. There was lobbying against a strong online market.
Why is that 3 years ago the last right wing government needed a lot of time to have every word of the new legislation checked by EU. How is that you need months of verifications to see if everything is according to EU politics and after that you can just completely ignore what's in the law and force a closed market that is not mentioned anywhere in any document?
Should we be naive and think this is just incompetence? There's a lot of money involved in the industry...