US Internet Gambling Laws Hurt Malta
by DAVID LINDSAY
MALTA INDEPENDENT21 June 2009
When arguing its case against the United States' Internet gambling laws with the World Trade Organisation, the European Commission highlighted the example of Malta as a case in point demonstrating the ‘adverse trade effects', within the syntax of the Trade Barriers Regulation, the situation is having on the Maltese economy.
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The Wall Street Journal, page D16
By HANNAH KARP
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