European countries have a freehand in regulating their land-based and online gambling industry, being partly exempt from following universal EU gambling laws. Bulgaria for one, which has been a European Union (EU) member since 2007, enacted its Gambling Act in 2012. Although the country’s regulation of the gambling industry was deemed stable for several years, the Act was amended in February 2021, to shift regulation of the gambling industry from the stand alone State Gambling Commission (SGC) to the government’s tax administrator, the National Revenue Agency (NRA). As it was, Bulgaria’s ruling party GERB succeeded in passing a bill that …