The French Council of State has backed FDJ’s monopoly for retail sports betting and online lottery games, rejecting requests from both Stanleybet and bwin who had asked for laws protecting the French state-owned operator to be amended.
Stanleybet launched legal proceedings in the French Council of State in 2009 after the failure of the French government to respond to its application for a sports betting licence. The application requested the repeal of the law which granted [...]
