Gambling firms call for change in US law or €70bn in compensation

EUROPE’S online gambling companies are pressing the EU to insist the US changes its laws to allow them operate there or demand $100 billion (€70bn) in compensation.

But instead insurance companies, storage, warehouse services and technical testing sectors are likely to gain from the current row.

The US lost a WTO case to the tiny Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda last year having denied their companies access to the $15 billion US internet gambling market.