Swedish News Publishers to Svenska Spel: The Party Goes On
Key Takeaways
  • Following Svenska Spel’s arguments that the “party was over” for gray market advertising revenues, publishers’ industry group Tidningsutgivarna riposted: “the party’s over, but for whom?”
  • He argues that her position on EU laws is incorrect, and that her desire to prohibit gaming advertising contravenes constitutional protections for commercial free speech.

Following Svenska Spel Chairwoman Anitra Steen’s arguments in the Swedish newspaper Di, which told news media that the “party was over” for gray market advertising revenues, Per Hultgård, the President of publishers’ industry group Tidningsutgivarna (TU), riposted: “the party’s over, but for whom?”