Czech PM Announces Gaming Control Plan

Sat, Nov 14, 2015

The government of the Czech Republic has approved an action plan to more effectively address and treat compulsive gambling, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has announced.

Bohuslav Sobotka, the Socialist Democrat prime minister of the Czech Republic, has announced a plan to increase awareness of compulsive gambling and offer treatment to addicts. “We are the first government to approve a document of this kind,” Sobotka told the Prague Daily Monitor.

Presently, the Czech Republic spends up to 16 billion crowns (US$635 million) per year on the issue. The Monitor reports that 2 billion to 5 billion could be saved by “an efficient regulation of ‘hard gambling,’” citing a study from the Psychiatric Centre Prague.

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