EU trade reps to meet with US to discuss online gambling

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EU trade officials are continuing to press the US for an explanation of its Internet gambling policy.

From PokerNews.com ...

A delegation of European Union trade officials will conduct talks with US officials at the end of this month over prosecutions and market restrictions concerning online gambling that appear to European interests to be restrictive and discriminatory in nature.

The meetings follow the abrupt brush-off in June of an extensive questionnaire prepared by EU officials in an attempt to learn American justifications for certain prosecutions and the forced exclusion of many EU-based gambling concerns from the US market. That exclusion, of publicly-held companies who were affected by the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), led to a formal complaint being filed with the EU by the Remote Gaming Association, a group representing several large European concerns.

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