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Recap 2009: EU Edition

The European Union has a rapidly changing online casino gambling industry because of the aggressive work being done by the European Commission to create a level playing field across all of the EU member-states when it comes to internet gambling. The European Union policies outline that all of the EU member-states must participate in the free trade of goods and services across borders, and the Commission has extended this policies to the online casinos. But the actual implementation process has been quite tricky and there are a dozen key countries that refuse to comply with the Commissions request. This has been the biggest issue facing the EU over the past year with the gambling relationship with the US coming in at a close second.

EU delegates attempted to hammer out a solution through negotiations with US politicians about the US’s discriminatory policies that stem from the UIGEA’s specific block and ban on foreign online casinos. In a bold and disrespectful move the US Trade Representatives have refused to fully negotiate with the EU officials until the EU has its own situation under control – ie. when the EU is no longer plagued by online casino gambling monopolies in countries like Sweden and Germany.

These are just a couple of the key negative developments in the EU over the past year – there have also been several positive developments within the online casino gambling industry. Most notable is really the fact that the Commission managed to successfully negotiate France into a new set of regulations that license and regulate the industry for foreign gambling sites rather than the protectionist previous market that supported a French gambling monopoly.