EU Member States have been urged to consider adopting a ‘unionised tax charge’ for online gambling operators, with proceeds directed towards funding social initiatives, education and workforce reskilling projects.

A proposal is being explored by Victor Negrescu, Vice-President of the European Parliament, who used a recent plenary address to reiterate support for examining an “EU-level iGaming tax” as part of broader budget reform discussions.

A member of Romania’s Social Democratic Party (PSD), Negrescu is among Parliament’s Vice-Presidents and plays a role in shaping and overseeing the EU’s budgetary framework. As lead negotiator on the 2025 EU Budget, he has consistently advocated an investment-led financial model centred on education, youth and skills development.

Speaking before MEPs in Brussels yesterday, Negrescu framed the proposal as both an economic and social measure that should be considered.

“The online gambling market is one of the fastest-growing digital industries ..

With new Dutch PM Rob Jetten setting into power, his coalition’s action plan has room to clash with the gambling regulator on two key areas.

This was raised by Michel Groothuizen, Chairman of Dutch gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), in a letter addressed to Jetten and all other policymakers part of the new coalition government.

“The new cabinet wants to ‘protect the vulnerable from profiteers’. There Jetten easily finds us on his side,” Groothuizen said in his statement.

“With the further ‘strengthening the duty of care of online gambling providers’ and the ‘harder tackling of illegal gambling sites’, the ambitions of the new cabinet also fit seamlessly with those of the KSA.”

However, the KSA Chair expressed concern on several points in the coalition’s seventy-page manifesto, which he said are “well-intentioned” but could prove “not very helpful”.

The first provision mandates a full ban on online gambling advertisements, on top of an already existing ban on gambling sp..

Spelinspektionen, the Gambling Inspectorate of Sweden, has urged licensees and stakeholders to engage with the ‘AMLA consultations’ to help improve the legitimacy and effectiveness of money laundering policies, practices and safeguards for EU Member States.

AMLA serves as the ‘Anti-Money Laundering Authority’, an EU-authorised supervisory body established in 2024 to support Member State governments and Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) with evidence and data to prosecute AML/CFT crimes and strengthen overall protections.

Within its remit, AMLA was established to help EU Member States align and implement money laundering safeguards in accordance with the EU’s new AML legislative package, including the AML Regulation and the 6th AML Directive, sanctioned on 14 June 2024.

The 6th AML Directive is regarded as a landmark reform in the EU’s harmonisation of anti-money laundering rules. The framework introduces 22 standardised definitions of “predicate money laundering offences”, includi..