On 7 August last year, the Italian parliament, a decision that has received the Italian sportligorna to see red. Both spelannonsering and sponsorship is prohibited in the entire country since the first of January 2019. Those who break the law are punished with fines that can reach up to 50,000 euros, which corresponds to about 500,000 Swedish kronor.
is spelreklam more or less something natural to rest your eyes on. My dad is Italian and has several times during my childhood turned on the tv to follow the last match. When we visit his side of the family, in a förortskvarter a bit outside of Rome, is heard several dark voices shouting in the running when the ball goes in the goal. For variationens sake changed the jubilation is sometimes placed against the profanity of the fotbollsspelarnas efforts.
But it is far from only the match that catches my eye. In red, blue and white fills spelreklam the venue with various posters. The names of the sponsors are quickly becoming something I will remember until the next time I see the familiar in the advertising.
”Indecent.”
the Choice of words comes from my grandmother. In Sweden, it is mainly the bars that offer slot machines. But in Rome, players can find the machines in both the tobacconists and some cafes.
recent years that the spelreklam have begun to question. In 2007, Italy had approximately 100,000 residents who had a problem with their gambling. 2017 had the figure increased to 400.000 people in any way had problems with gambling, according to a study by the CNR Institute of Clinical Psychology.
In comparison with Sweden, where two percent of the population has a gambling addiction, in other words, roughly 150,000 to 200,000 people, Italy has twice as many residents with the same problem. In this way, the national prohibition become a pekvisare for other countries.
But both the Italian gaming clubs, football leagues, and fans are worried over the development.
”But spelreklam the black gaming market increase. It will increase because the Italian customers will neither be informed or referred to websites that have a licence in Italy,” writes Moreno Marosco, president of the Italian online gaming association (LOGICO) together with the european gaming society (EGBA) in a letter to the Italian parliament.
spelreklam, however, is not unexpected. The development went in that direction four years ago when the town of Anacapri was the first in the country to ban the gambling machines. Since then, several cities followed in the same track.
Luigi Di Maio, Italy’s minister of labour and deputy prime minister, believes that problem gambling is an urgent issue that needed to be addressed immediately. As part of the ban is a tax increase for almost all types of gambling, such as the need online games estimate 25 per cent instead of 20 per cent as in the past. A total of expect Italy get an additional € 50 million in tax revenue.
To spelreklamförbudet became a reality at the moment can be linked to the negotiations with the EU. Since the Italian government access has conflicts with the EU has been commonplace. Among other things, the union has criticised the country’s government for ”particularly serious violations” against the union’s budgetary rules, and also demanded that Italy do its financial plan for 2019. After many questions managed Italy get through his budget. But not without change in the proposal.
Among other things, criticized the budget for having large gaps in some of the areas would be financed. To implement tax increases for spelreklam can be a temporary solution. If the ban reduces the country’s problems with gambling addiction, however, remains to see.
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