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Online betting in Ireland is live. Casino licences and action against overseas illegal sites are delayed because the regulator is short of money. The Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland told Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan it would stall remote-gaming licensing after Budget 2026 gave it €13.35M instead of the €26M it had asked for. In March […]
The gambling logos still on Premier League kits are aimed at viewers who watch from abroad. On 18 September 2026 Entain said 11 of the 20 clubs have Premier League betting sponsors with no Gambling Commission licence, up from the government’s estimate of 8 in 2025/26. Clubs withdrew gambling from the front of matchday shirts […]
A land-based trade federation prices unlicensed Europe as a compounding traffic book built around a short list of brands. In September a study commissioned by Euromat and produced by Regulus Partners and Helios sized the unlicensed iGaming market across 28 European markets. It puts black-market net revenue at €12B in 2025 — a quarter of […]
Licensed Dutch operators have taken the illegal-ad fight onto Facebook and Instagram. VNLOK asked the Amsterdam District Court to find that Meta failed the Digital Services Act on illegal gambling ads aimed at Dutch users. Also VNLOK asked to force tighter filters before those ads go live. VNLOK is the trade association of licensed online […]
Google autocompletes betting queries with keywords related to illegal operators. Typing “wetten” (bets) makes Google suggest betting without LUGAS and without OASIS. “wetten o” (bets o) was enough to show “wetten ohne lugas limit” (bets without a LUGAS limit) and “wetten ohne oasis mit paypal” (bets without OASIS, with PayPal). LUGAS is the deposit-limit system […]
Sofia has opened a four-track Gambling Act package after a year in which leftover advertising did not lift search demand. On 23 September the Ministry of Finance published a draft amendment to the Gambling Act for public consultation through 23 October. The file is a proposal. It has not passed parliament. The package splits into […]
The report finds an unlicensed majority in EU online GGR, while the same licence test on search and CEB stays with licensed brands. On 23 September the Campaign for Fairer Gambling released Online Gambling 2024–2025: EU 27 Europe. The report states that unregulated operators generated an estimated €91.6B GGR from EU-27 consumers in 2025 — […]
Poland spent three weeks squeezing payments to illegal gambling domains, and the licensed side lost the most. BLIK, Poland’s mobile payment system, began checking transfers against the Finance Ministry’s illegal-gambling register and blocking the matches at authorisation on Sept 1. Polish iGaming demand fell by roughly 40% in the first week of the block and […]
