{"id":987061,"date":"2026-05-27T01:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/987061\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:57:17","slug":"spain-blocks-access-to-polymarket-and-kalshi-as-it-launches-gambling-license-investigation-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/987061\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain blocks access to Polymarket and Kalshi as it launches gambling license investigation \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a class=\"back-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2190 Back to Newsroom<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\nTuesday, May 26, 2026 7:13 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" class=\"no-lazy\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kalshi-1000x600.jpg\"  \/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/theguardian.com.jpg\"\/>Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s ministry of consumer rights has blocked access to Polymarket and Kalshi while it investigates whether the leading prediction market sites are violating Spanish law by operating without a gambling license.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the ministry said it had launched disciplinary proceedings against the two platforms, which allow users to bet on everything from the weather to political events, amid allegations that they lacked the \u201cnecessary administrative authorization\u201d to operate in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The two sites would be blocked domestically until the investigation was concluded, it said in a statement, which added: \u201cThe process of reaching a final decision is expected to take between three and four months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/26\/spain-blocks-access-polymarket-kalshi-gambling-licence-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on The Guardian\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/26\/spain-blocks-access-polymarket-kalshi-gambling-licence-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2190 Back to Newsroom Tuesday, May 26, 2026 7:13 PM Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian Email, LinkedIn, and more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":987062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,35240,13146,93935,2443,104],"class_list":["post-987061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-kalshi","tag-licensing","tag-polymarket","tag-regulation","tag-spain"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116644063592389755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}