Romania’s National Office for Gambling opened a €5m funding call on 20 April for projects addressing gambling harm. Applications are due by 11 May, and the regulator expects to announce successful applicants by 28 July, subject to appeals.
Eligible organisations have until 11 May to seek funding for prevention, treatment, research and related projects.
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Romania’s ONJN rejected a new Polymarket request to suspend the restriction on its operations in the country, the regulator’s president, Vlad-Cristian Soare, said. Soare argued that the platform’s activity amounts to betting rather than trading and should fall under national gambling rules; the report says the request was rejected as unfounded, not on procedural grounds.
Romania’s ONJN said findings in the Court of Accounts’ 2024 report relate to a period before the current leadership took office and are resolved or being addressed. The authority said it has started recovering uncollected sums, completed five integrity reports and is checking gambling operators’ activity over the past five years; a 2025 follow-up report is due to be published.
A Romanian court rejected Polymarket's request to suspend the ONJN decision classifying the platform as operating without a licence, according to the report. The regulator blacklisted Polymarket in October 2025 after reporting more than $600m in trading volume during the presidential election and $15m during Bucharest's local elections; it said those totals represented cumulative transactions.
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities awarded more than £9.4m to gambling harms organisations in the UK, according to a report. Recipients include Gambling with Lives, Gamban, GamLearn, Chapter One and Beacon Counselling Trust; the funding page puts total provision through 2028 at £39.7m.
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) has awarded more than £9.4m to gambling harms groups, following legal challenges to earlier funding decisions, according to the report.
OHID’s decisions on UK gambling harms prevention funding left many legacy charities with less funding than requested, according to reports published on 23 March 2026. Signed contracts were due by 24 March, and full funding totals had not yet been released; some organisations could downsize or close, the report said.