Not that it should come as any great surprise but the EU has conducted an investigation and concluded that the US unfairly targeted overseas operators while doing little or nothing to pursue online gaming going on within the US. Currently the EU has given the US a grace period before taking their case to the World Trade Organization but this puts added pressure on the EU to act on behalf of European gaming operators who were impacted by the US UIGEA.

The European Commission issued a statement saying, “The report comes to the conclusion that these proceedings are legally not justified and discriminatory.”

While under the Bush the US was prone to ignoring international trade agreements that they didn’t agree with, Obama has made it a focus to improve ties with other countries so the US stance on issues such as this might soften.

Ultimately, today’s news does little than to give more ammunition to a case that seems fairly self-evident on its own.