While the EU’s man Peter Mandelson sticks it to his US counterparts over the issue of securing US compensation following the US withdrawal from its WTO obligations to a free online gambling industry, Antigua is taking a slightly different tact.

Antigua effectively kicked off the whole WTO trade spat that has now morphed into massive compensation claims from countries whose online gambling industries have been shut out of the US market.  But Antigua’s recent approach is to try to provide US legislators with a positive look at Internet gambling while highlighting the hypocrisy of the US’ UIGEA law which effectively disrupts the popular online pastime.
Meetings have been organized between Antigua’s prime minister Baldwin Spencer and US Congressional representatives with the aim of resolving the WTO dispute.
In reality I believe Prime Minister Spencer’s trip will be a wasted one – the US has no intention of changing its UIGEA legislation and certainly has no intention of fessing up with the money currently being demanded as compensation in the WTO spat.
However, anything that may help online bingo operators offer bingo online to the US market is welcome.  One can only hope that if the EU and Antigua ultimately prove successful in pursing their claims of compensation against the US, free online bingo operators in both Europe and Antigua will be amongst those to benefit.
Written by John Witherspoon – Interested in free online bingo? Our great online bingo portal gives all the info you need.

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