Svenska Spel keeps its monopoly

Even though the Svenska Spel monopoly was criticized by the Swedish Parliament , it will probably keep its monopolyaccording with the Swedish economic journal, Veckans Affärer, because it gets a lot of money to the state budget – Q1 of 2007 – net profit of €157 million.

So the state will put hard-to-meet conditions for new entrants, so nobody will buy a license. Sweden’s finance minister, Anders Borg lied in the electoral campaign when he promised to to abolish the state gambling monopoly.