On Tuesday, Members of the European Parliament rejected the idea of creating a single EU market for online gambling in a vote of 544 to 36 with 66 abstentions.

By voting to adopt a nonbinding resolution on the integrity of online gambling at its Strasbourg plenary, the European Parliament essentially came down in favor of European Union member states regulating online gambling individually.

The alternative minority opinion, drafted by the Parliament's Internal Market and Consumer Protection committee, argued that gambling is an economic activity that should fall under the same rules that protect the freedom to provide services across the EU.

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