French Budget Minister, Eric Woerth, has told French newspapers that he plans to recommend to President Nicolas Sarkozy a “controlled opening” of the online gaming market according to press agency Reuters.
It is expected that plans for the opening up of the tightly managed state-run betting industry in France will be published before summer and that online companies could be operating there by 2010.
The country is currently under intense scrutiny from the European Union for its protectionist stance towards gaming.
