Mendel says he will meet with McCreevey

The Antigua Sun reports this week that trade lawyer Mark Mendel, the attorney representing the tiny Caribbean country in its WTO dispute with the United States, has plans to meet with European Union internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevey in "the near future" to discuss the case. Mendel tells the newspaper that he plans to explore the possibility of the EU joining the action but sounds a bit pessimistic. The attorney tells the Sun that he thinks a European intervention is unlikely given the fact that the EU's membership is itself split over the issue of online gaming.