The Netherlands government is to reconsider the state ownership of the Holland Casino chain of venues across the country.
In a meeting of the permanent committee for finance of the Dutch lower house, finance minister Sigrid Kaag promised that an evaluation of the benefits of the monopoly for Holland Casino and the Nederlandse Loterij lottery would be published next year.
The news medium Gaming in Holland suggests that Dutch MPs are increasingly uncomfortable with state-owned companies advertising potentially harmful products and a parliamentary majority in favour of privatisation appears likely.
