iGaming operators in the UK, Gibraltar, Alderney, and the Isle of Man have had a turbulent few months as the uncertainty around Brexit looms on the horizon. How, when, and if at all the UK will actually withdraw from the European Union remains to be seen, but
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Malta is standing its ground in the face of pressure from the rest of the European Union to protect its coveted online gaming sector, which accounts for 11 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product. The issue centres on a new definition of ‘illegal sports betting’
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Negotiators from Antigua and Barbuda and the United States held recent consultations with the Caribbean territory seeking to achieve meaningful compensation for the hurt caused to its remote gambling industry as a result of a number of laws criminalizing remote gambling services offered to American consumers.
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It isn’t a nuclear holocaust that Antigua and Barbuda want, but a trade war over the right of the twin island nation to export Internet gambling to paying customers in the United States — a right Antigua says it is entitled to under the rules of the World Trade Organization, but that the U.S. Justice Department opposes.
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“As a small country, it is not our intention to have a fight with the United States. But we believe also that as a sovereign nation we are entitled to all the rights and the protection of the WTO,” Lovell said yesterday in a phone interview. “We believe the time has come (to pursue sanctions) having exhausted all other possibilities.”
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