State lotteries call for EU recognition of their contributions to good causes
Speaking at a Belgian EU Presidency conference last week, Friedrich Stickler said that, in 2009, state lotteries from Malta to Finland contributed 22.4 billion euros to good causes and public budgets, an amount that has remained stable or even grown during the last years of economic crisis.
Stickler said: “This funding is indispensable to public authorities and thousands of civil society organisations across Europe, especially in these difficult times. We think it is in the best interest of society that EU policy-makers find a solution to guarantee a sustainable future for this public utility model we stand for and which is applied in all EU member states.”
Civil society’s top beneficiaries of lottery funding in the EU are sport, mainly grassroots sport (2 billion euros in 2009), charity (1.5 billion) and arts/cultural heritage (0.9 billion).
Science/health/research, education/youth, environment/climate change and development cooperation are other areas which greatly benefit from lottery funding.
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