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In the ever-continuing struggle to get poker online, and indeed online gambling, legal everywhere in the world, there has come some bad news from Sweden. Now, you would think a country as open-minded and accepting as Sweden would not have a problem with poker games, but sadly, we still have some hurdles to leap in this world.

Unfortunately, Sweden sued some online bookers to prove they couldn’t be allowed and succeeded. EU countries have the right to ban online gambling The European Union Court of Justice ruled yesterday, according to the news agency Reuters.

The Swedish case before the court concerned newspapers running ads for foreign bookmakers, the Reuters report said.

Sweden had prosecuted on the basis of violating the countries lottery laws, the individuals then appealed the prosecution and the ECJ was consulted, Reuters said.

ECJ found in favor of the right of countries to ban online gambling being consistent with “community law”, but would not allow countries, such as Sweden, to impose what it termed “discriminatory penalties”, Reuters explained.

I guess I understand if Sweden has banned online gaming that doesn’t fir with the country’s gambling laws, but nonetheless we need a worldwide, uniform law regarding online poker, and online gambling. Only then can we be a truly free people to play at Everest.