SOURCE: Online Casino Reports
Online Casino gambling has long been popular in Europe. In some
respects the online casino legislation may change sooner in Europe and
the UK than in the US. There have been recent debates about it in
parliament. French online casinos are no exception to this rule. The
French online casino business has been in full swing for several years.
It is estimated that the French gamble twice as often and for three
times as long as British online casino players.
Land based casino gambling in France is highly restricted and if you
want to play casino games in France your only choice is state-managed
operations. Government run betting business enterprises are limited to
Pari Mutuel Urbain lotto and the National Lottery. The majority of
areas in France are forbidden from operating land based casinos and
casino machines, apart from a few small areas of the country. But an
inconsistency in EU policy has allowed for French players to play at
the online casino.
The large increase in high speed internet connection within France
and Europe in general has a lot to do with the rise in popularity of
the online casino. It is actually felt that the online casino is in
fact the catalyst for the demand for high speed internet. To play most
online casino games and use the software properly, high speed internet
is required.
The relationship between high speed internet and the online casino
is still a grey area. One country that seems to contradict the
correlation is Spain. It has one of the lowest rates of online gambling
in the EU despite having a large high speed internet market.
