Elsewhere in Europe, Bwin.fr and Sajoo.fr are looking at merging in order to save more money in the French market. La Tribune reports that the two sides have already put in place cross-shareholdings and it now looks like the two brands will work together. It won’t mean that the Sajoo brand will be lost though and it comes after Pwin announced its intention to sell the network both sites run on, Ongame.
Still in France, Zeturf has responded to the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) decision that monopolies may be just fine in some cases. Following the detailed opinion, Zeturf were pleased and stated that the new guidelines were “likely to challenge” the monopoly owned by PMU. Thursday’s ruling came after Pari-Mutuel Urbain (PMU) agreed to split up the online and offline parts of their business.