The German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is questioning why it should obey the newly created GlüNeuRStv (Fourth Interstate Gambling Treaty) and allow online gambling inside its borders.
State Chairman René Domke raised the question during a hearing by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, where he asserted that the treaty held “no specific obligation for individual states to offer online casino games.”
Domke argues that the GlüNeuRStv has forced his state to adopt a framework for online gaming that will be detrimental to it because it is not yet ready to regulate online gaming.
Domke said he supports legislation in the Bundestag (Germany’s national legislature) that would resolve the fragmented iGaming laws across all 16 federal states.
The Glücksspiel (GGL) took over as Germany’s federal gaming regulator at the beginning of the year. It has announced that it has a backlog of licensing online games and poker, with many more applications than it has qualified operators.
