Last Sunday, France elected Emmanuel Macron as its new President. Mr. Macron, a former Minister of the Economy and a first-time presidential candidate, took 66% of the vote to his far-right opponent Marine Le Pen’s 34%.
A Le Pen victory could have embroiled the future of the European Union in great uncertainty and the bloc could have seen one of its founding members negotiate and even terminate its membership.
And in the context of the European online gambling industry, a Le Pen victory could have had a very unpleasant impact on ongoing shared online poker liquidity talks.
Meaning that a Eurosceptic President would have created numerous complications that could have threatened shared liquidity progress significantly. Luckily for the future of online poker, France elected a seriously pro-European President instead.
Shared liquidity will may very soon become a fact and not just a mere concept thrown into discussions only to be greatly neglected soon after. It is expected to be signed by mid-2017. (READ SO: WITH DELAY BUT FINALLY JOINT THE ONLINE POKER LIQUIDITY SHARING)
If that plan is fulfilled, a first merged network may be launched by the end of the year.
