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The European online casino gambling industry is lucky to have the Remote gaming Association (RGA) on its side throughout the tumultuous process of leveling the playing field in the European Union as well as the United States markets. Both of these major markets have some very real kinks and issues that need to be straightened out and the RGA acts as a united voice for all of the largest online casino gambling groups in Europe. The major gambling groups have a very real interest in a free and regulated EU market – the same holds true for the United States. The European Commission is actively working on ending the state internet gambling monopolies. As for the issues with the US market, the RGA has outlined some of the key complaints about the discriminatory US laws and the EU delegates are now set on negotiating with the United States on more favorable legislation that meets with previously signed trade agreements.

The RGA has been in operation for just shy of four years and was formed with the joining of two previously separate but similarly functioning internet gambling associations. Now, the RGA is a powerful body that operates on behalf of the European online casinos and companies operating within many sectors of the internet gambling industry. As the negotiations with the United States begin in earnest, something that is a long time coming, the World Trade Organization and the European Union are receptive to the RGA outlining its chief problems with the US market and the specific discriminatory qualities of the UIGEA on behalf of the European online casinos.

With the new administration in place there is a sliver of hope that the US Trade Representatives will now come to the table willing to negotiate. The WTO is on the side of the EU and the ongoing dismissal of WTO requests and mandates by the WTO has the potential to threaten the power and legitimacy of the organization – this would have serious and negative side effects in negotiations with other nations, such as China, down the line.