https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Gaming company Betsson plans to open its first outlet in Sweden at the end of May with the express purpose of challenging the Swedish gaming monopoly. https://www.thelocal.se/20080527/12038 Tue, 27 May 2008 14:16:00 +0200 12038 The government is open to selling off parts of the Svenska Spel gaming monopoly to other actors in the market. https://www.thelocal.se/20080522/11944 Thu, 22 May 2008 18:05:00 +0200 11944 Svenksa Spel’s gaming monopoly ought to be abolished in order to make way for new forms of cultural support, writes the Moderate Party’s Culture Committee. https://www.thelocal.se/20080505/11548 Mon, 05 May 2008 10:43:00 +0200 11548 Svenska Spel CEO Jesper Kärrbrink has decided to step down following consultations with the company’s board. https://www.thelocal.se/20080421/11252 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:12:00 +0200 11252 Margareta Winberg, a former Social Democratic Deputy Prime Minister, has been named the new chair of Svenksa Spel, Sweden’s state-owned gaming operation. https://www.thelocal.se/20080404/10904 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:49:00 +0200 10904 Sweden's state-owned gambling monopoly, Svenska Spel, has been forbidden from expanding its net-poker services - for the time being at least. https://www.thelocal.se/20071108/9042 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:07:00 +0100 9042 Sweden's state-owned gambling monopoly, Svenska Spel, made profits of nearly 1.4 billion kronor ($215 million) in the third quarter, the company announced on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20071023/8877 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:06:00 +0200 8877 The European Commission will censure Sweden this week for restrictions it has put on sports gambling, sources close to the matter said Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20070625/7701 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:05:00 +0200 7701 State-owned Swedish betting company Svenska Spel has said it will introduce compulsory age checks for people using its gaming machines. Shops and bars that host the machines but do not enforce the age limits will face tougher penalties, the company has said. https://www.thelocal.se/20070618/7642 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:15:00 +0200 7642 Svenska Spel, Sweden's state-owned gambling company, has been accused of deliberately targeting gaming machines in areas with major social problems and low average incomes. https://www.thelocal.se/20070408/6938 Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:15:00 +0200 6938 Swedish state gambling operator Svenska Spel has said it is closing its Limbo game after it was reported that organized groups were cheating, winning themselves hundreds of thousands of kronor and making it practically impossible for small players to win. https://www.thelocal.se/20070324/6788 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:09:00 +0100 6788 Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet has said it intends to publish an advertisement for Maltese gambling company Expekt, despite a court ruling on Thursday authorizing stiff penalties if it goes ahead. https://www.thelocal.se/20070308/6634 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:23:00 +0100 6634 Despite tough competition from online gambling firms, Swedish horse racing organisation AB Trav och Galopp returned record results in 2006. Turnover on horse racing betting increased to 11.27 billion kronor, an increase of 2.6 percent on 2005. https://www.thelocal.se/20070101/5957 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:20:00 +0100 5957 Sweden's gambling monopoly Svenska Spel claims to take its public responsibility very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that the state organisation has introduced group toilet breaks for its online poker games. https://www.thelocal.se/20061206/5721 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:48:00 +0100 5721 Foreign companies could be allowed to enter the Swedish gambling market when the state-run monopoly, Svenska Spel is dismantled, Sweden's new minister for financial markets has said. https://www.thelocal.se/20061007/5140 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 14:42:00 +0200 5140 The opening of a state-owned casino in Malmö has contributed to a doubling in the number of gambling addicts in the city, a new report from the Swedish National Institute for Public Health will claim. https://www.thelocal.se/20061002/5082 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:35:00 +0200 5082 Swedish state-owned gambling monopoly Svenska Spel is to introduce a minimum age restriction of 18 on all its in-store games. https://www.thelocal.se/20061001/5080 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:41:00 +0200 5080 The Christian Democrats, the smallest of the four Alliance parties, now says it is open to the idea of allowing foreign competition into the current gaming monopoly in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20060920/4965 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:36:00 +0200 4965 As the Lotto balls fell into place on Saturday evening it slowly dawned on a Trelleborg man that he had just won a cool 93 million kronor - tax-free. https://www.thelocal.se/20060910/4839 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:34:00 +0200 4839 The Swedish gaming industry is one of a trio of State-controlled sectors to have come under increasing scrutiny in the eleven years since Sweden’s accession to the EU. Alcohol, and its natural successor paracetamol, can similarly only be obtained under the watchful eye of the State. But it is the world of odds, pools and lotteries that currently seems most vulnerable to the perils of EU competition law. https://www.thelocal.se/20060803/4510 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:44:00 +0200 4510