Poland Changes Stance on Online Gambling

May 9, 2008

It seems that Poland has had a change of heart and will be regulating online gambling instead of banning it. The country’s Deputy Finance Minister Jacek Kapica has announced that they will be regulating online gambling, and the process to do so will be completed by the end of this year.

Last we heard, Poland was planning on banning all online gambling so this change took many by surprise. Kapica says that they are aware that they cannot stop people from participating in online gambling, so they might as well make some money from it. This makes perfect sense to many.

However, with a new government in place over the past couple of years, and changes in beliefs and stances over online gambling, the Liberal Civic Platform says that it would be too costly to keep attempting to ban online gambling, so it makes more sense to make an estimated $48 billion by 2010.

Those opposed to the online gambling regulation say that the numbers that they are coming up with are overblown and out of proportion to what it would really be. However, the country seems to think that this is the more beneficial way of going about it.

There has also been a lot of pressure from the European Union to make online gambling legal, so one can only assume that this had something to do with the change as well.

 

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