WASHINGTON -- As reported by Reuters: "A dispute over U.S. enforcement actions against European Union online gambling companies could be headed to the World Trade Organization soon, an European
Less money was gambled in 2009 than in 2008. industry group said on Wednesday.
"'It looks very much as if this matter will ... be sent to the WTO at the end of the commission's investigation,' Lode Van Den Hende, outside counsel for the Remote Gambling Association, told reporters as EU officials were in Washington to probe U.S. Justice Department enforcement actions.
"That would open the door for possible European sanctions on the United States, although it could take years for any case to make its way through the WTO litigation system..."
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