BANNING SLOT MACHINES IN TOWNS WITH A POPULATION OF LESS THAN 15,000. REFLECTION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF EUROPEAN AND CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES

Under the pressure of a complicated election year, the Romanian Parliament adopted Law no. 107/2024 in response to a populist impulse: banning slot machines in towns with a population of less than 15,000 inhabitants. Obviously, this law was adopted without taking into account fundamental principles originating in European law and the Romanian Constitution. To begin with, we will refer to the legal texts that have an impact on Law No...