FEDBET warns that 80 per cent of Romania’s legal gambling market will be wiped out by year end

The number of legal slots will fall from 43,306 in March to 9,000 at the beginning of 2027 The Federation of Gambling Organisers in Romania, FEDBET, has warned that the blocking of gambling authorisations will not make demand disappear, but will move it to channels that the state does not control. It says that vulnerable people will remain without the protection mechanisms guaranteed by the legal framework, while accelerating the decline of an already regulated and controlled market. At the level of the European Union, 72 per cent of the online gambling market is the black market.