EU Restrictions to Face Challenges

LONDON – As reported by Reuters: "European restrictions to cross-border gambling over the Internet will face a growing number of legal challenges and could fall away within the next three years, according to a lawyer who specialises in gambling.

"Although European Union law allows cross-border trade by gambling companies, many individual states prevent it, and critics accuse them of doing so to protect their own state lotteries.

"'It's no longer a case of will the barriers come down but more a question of timing,' Ewout Keuleers, an attorney at the Bar of Brussels, told the Gambling Law Conference on Wednesday.

"…Restrictions on cross-border gambling -- particularly in the United States -- are seen as posing the biggest risks for big new flotations such as that of PartyGaming in London…"