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Losing the Credibility from Online Casinos

The European Union has been negotiating some major online casino gambling issues with EU member-states over the past several years; and a lot of these state gambling monopolies are still in place despite the work of the European Commission to negotiate new regulations with more than a dozen EU countries. Although the Commission has had some success forcing countries like Italy, France, and Greece to begin to comply with EU gambling policies and pass regulations that allow for the free trade of goods and services between member-states, including the online casinos. This issue has taken a lot of time to find even the minor resolutions and the EU justice system has been slow to act. Unfortunately, the US government has used the EU’s current online gambling problems against the EU and refuses to come to the table for negotiations about the US’ own questionable gambling policies.

In essence, the US has blatantly noted that since the EU still has some major issues when it comes to a fair and open online casino gambling market the US Trade Representatives will not openly renegotiate foreign issues with the US’ controversial UIGEA situation. The EU currently lacks the credibility to come down hard on the US government for protectionist policies considering the fact that nearly a dozen EU countries are operating monopolies or are specifically disallowing foreign online casinos to compete in their national markets. The USTR’s announcement to that effect was a tough blow to the EU and in the intervening months it seems as though the EU has kicked into overdrive to solve the internet gambling related issues.

It is anticipated that several EU member-states will soon face the European Court of Justice for their protectionist online casino gambling monopolies. And once the EU landscape is more leveled by new regulations, the EU delegates will have more room to demand changes with the US’ internet gambling regulations and blocks.