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“The European Union is run in a way that favors our business‘’ Garber, Chief Executive Officer of PartyGaming Plc said on a conference last week.

The EU is pushing countries to scrap any measures that protect domestic companies when those nations open their markets. You hear Leach?

Italy next year will let companies offer online lotteries, bingo and betting on sports or games of skill. The U.K. will begin licensing private Internet gaming sites in September. Belgium is working to change its legislation as well, and private companies are already allowed to offer sports betting in Austria.

European countries that take a more enlightened approach of regulation, not prohibition, stand to gain. “Regulation, Not Prohibition” lets put this in the heads of the congress.