A.T. Kearney has recently released the EU Football Sustainability Study.

The Examination of Threats to the Integrity of Sports was commissioned by the EU Sports Platform and has been launched in European Parliament. The report, elaborated by Danish research institute Oxford Research, outlines the key problems and also examines what can be done to combat the threats.

The 25th of May, in Brussels marked the European Union’s preliminary steps in the process of creating a legal structure for gambling and betting.

Sepp Blatter remains on a collision course with the European Union over its attempts to restrict overseas players after an influential UK parliamentary committee threw its weight behind the FIFA supremo’s controversial 6+5 rule.

This article is a resume of a study carried out by Amnyos Group for the French Ministry of Sport. It provides an overview of the structure of sports financing in EU and recommendations in regards to securing the financing of sport in Europe.

The new WADA whereabouts rule requiring athletes to report their whereabouts more comprehensively is proving to be very unpopular. EU is urging WADA to reconsider the rule, UEFA director Platini recommends not to follow the rule and Belgian athletes have filed a court challenge to decide whether the rule is violating human rights.

Principles of independent journalism won in the latest skirmish between sports federations and media organisations about the rights to cover sport events. The battle took place in the European Parliament where members voted on amendments to a report on the European Commission’s White Paper on Sport which could have introduced new intellectual property rights to sport events.

On the final day of the 2007 conference, Play the Game took a critical look the new EU white paper on the future of European sport.