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Italy forecasts €54.8m for gambling-harm fund in 2027

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Italy’s 2027 health ministry budget forecast includes €54.8m for the fund addressing gambling addiction, according to the ministry’s financial planning document. The amount is residual accounting and payments from earlier funding, not a new standalone allocation; the separate pathological addictions fund is due to receive €94m annually from 2027 to 2029.

Italy’s health ministry forecasts €54.8m for a fund addressing pathological gambling in 2027, according to its budget forecast.

The amount is not a new standalone allocation, but residual accounting and payments from earlier funding. The 2025 budget law abolished the fund and incorporated it into a new fund for pathological addictions. The new fund is due to receive €94m a year from 2027 to 2029.

For the same period, the ministry aims to maintain at 100% an indicator of its capacity to plan prevention, treatment and rehabilitation activities financed by the gambling fund.

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