Should you ever dreamed of playing the night time away in a on line casino in Stockholm, Sweden, you’d higher do it quickly. Earlier this week Swedish lawmakers within the Riksdag voted to shutter the On line casino Cosmopol, the nation’s sole, land-based on line casino. It’s a transfer that marks the top of an period in Sweden and displays the bigger, long-term development of European governments getting out of the on line casino monopoly enterprise completely.
The On line casino Cosmopol has lengthy been Sweden’s solely land-based on line casino and, at one level, there have been as many of 4 of them within the nation. Now lawmakers within the Riksdag say that the casinos are not seeing a revenue and aren’t widespread sufficient to keep up.
Not surprisingly, the rise of on-line playing was cited as the primary offender within the demise of land-based Casinos within the Nordic nation. Even On line casino Cosmopol CEO Ola Enquist agreed that the On line casino Cosmopol had outlived it usefulness saying, “We share the federal government’s evaluation and have been ready for the Riksdag’s determination,” Enquist mentioned. “Nonetheless, it’s after all emotionally powerful as a result of it signifies that an period will finish when the on line casino in Stockholm ultimately closes. Our focus proper now could be to assist our workers, and on the identical time keep open and proceed to handle our company.”
It’s, nonetheless, unclear when the ultimate On line casino Cosmopol will truly be closed as lawmakers additionally mentioned that the Stockholm location would stay open indefinitely whereas the liquidation of the group’s belongings strikes ahead, in accordance with a press launch from the Riksdag.
