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On June 11, applies Uber to the taxi protests intensified in Europe, more than 30,000 taxis and luxury-car drivers on Wednesday will take part in mass protests against the Uber. European taxi driver said, Uber has threatened their livelihoods.

From United Kingdom capital of London to Italy Milan, more than 30,000 taxis and luxury-car drivers plan to hold strikes at the visitor centre and the business district, urging European Governments to adopt more stringent policies to restrict the United States took a taxi used Uber. No licence to operate Uber application that allows consumers to "black". In some European countries, taxi licences will cost up to 200,000 euros (about 270,000 dollars).

Uber just announced last week, the company raised 1.2 billion dollars through a new round of financing, almost round of financing valued at 17 billion dollars to the company. After the newly raised capital, Uber will continue to expand into global markets. European expansion plans but Uber has obviously been influenced by the impact of strikes by taxi drivers. France previous Uber classes Internet taxi service taxi industry fears would threaten the economic gains more and more apparent, several taxi associations earlier this year organized a demonstration to protest. Demonstrators blocked Paris's two major airports to the city's main road, drove the taxi service vehicles change lanes, the car when passing through checkpoints, has suffered threw stones and paint at them, some vehicle rear window broken, even the tyres had been destroyed. To this end, the France Government has introduced measures to limit the Uber service.

Uber is currently operating in 128 cities worldwide, but only entered Europe in 20 cities, including Manchester United, Lyon and Zurich. Chaersi·liqifeierde, an analyst at Eurasia Group in London (Charles Lichfield) for this, "said relative to the United States, European cities more stringent regulation of the taxi industry. I don't think the strike will achieve even better results. ”

According to France FNAT taxi Association provides information on more than 3,000 drivers in Paris planned for Wednesday at 6 o'clock in the morning block of Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports, and around Paris A1 motorway.

Madrid and Milan

According to Spain Fedetaxi taxi Association provides information, Madrid taxi drivers who are planning the same time period in Spain public works Department (Spain's Public Works Ministry) on a 24-hour strike outside the offices. In Italy city of Milan, more than 5,000 taxi drivers strike scheduled for 8 o'clock in the morning local time to 10 o'clock in the afternoon; more than 1000 Berlin taxi drivers planned to lunch in the famous main street business district elector to go on strike.

London taxi strike European cities will be the most massive strikes. United Kingdom licensed taxi drivers Association (the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association) Secretary General shidifu·maikenamala (Steve McNamara) indicated that the strike preparation for weeks, 10,000 to 12,000 Black cabs and private cars is scheduled at 2 o'clock in the afternoon in tourist Central Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square (Parliament Square) rally. Protesters followed World War I war conscription events, asked the driver to join the event.

Protest has been far more than the category of the automotive service industry. Online Realtor services including Aereo Airbnb and video streaming service providers continue to grow, have posed a threat to traditional industries. Traditional industry believes that competition should be subject to the same regulatory restrictions.

United States Seattle and other cities, the local taxi industry has already held a similar protest.

The same treatment

"Over the years, the Government has been imposing new taxes on the taxi industry and impose more restrictions--from taxi colors to the global positioning system," France FNAT taxi Association Chairman nading·anei (Nadine Annet) said, "we are at least required the competitors receive the same treatment. ”

Uber said in a statement released Tuesday, the firm's European team plans to take measures to keep traffic taxi strike European cities. The company said that "at the time the taxi industry might seek to involve Europe's stalled, we will be trying to get passengers to their destinations. ”

Uber last week won a new round led by Fidelity Investments $ 1.2 billion in financing. Prior to joining the financing in the deal valued at about $ 17 billion of the Uber. Uber porcelain from Google ventures, Menlo Ventures and TPG Capital and other investors in funds raised $ 307.5 million.

According to the official website of the Uber, the company is able to provide 20,000 new jobs a month. Driver using the UberX platform, earned revenues of $ 90,000 per year in New York City, and earned more than $ 74,000 in revenue in San Francisco.