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Berlin (dpa) - Several hundred Berlin taxi drivers protested on Friday in the capital against the planned opening of the transport service market.
Her motorcade moved from Brandenburg through the center of Berlin to the CDU federal office.
“Don't give Uber a chance” and “Stop scouring,” it said on banners.
On the initiative of Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU), the federal government decided to change the Passenger Transport Act in order to open up the transport service market to new mobility providers.
These include providers such as Uber and Free Now, but also new shared taxi offers such as the Berlin Berlkönig.
Taxi drivers have also faced competition from rental car offers such as Weshare and Share Now.
"The taxi industry will not let the butter be taken from the bread and fight for fair competition," said the initiator of the protest in Berlin, Erkan Özmen.
Taxi drivers had demonstrated several times in Berlin in the past few months.
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The Federal Association of Taxi and Rental Cars announced demonstrations across Germany.
The industry requires a pre-order period for rental cars.
Their drivers should also take a local knowledge test like taxi drivers and carry counterfeit-proof route meters with them.
There is resistance to the planned law from the Greens and the Left, among others.
The FDP also expressed its understanding for the taxi drivers' protest.
But the reform does not go far enough for you.
Regulations like compulsory transport would have to be removed in order to create fair competition.
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