I paid nearly $40 on Sunday for a 10-minute taxi ride from Luxembourg’s airport to my home. That’s why I’m hoping for a successful outcome of Uber’s ongoing talks with the government to launch its service. While Uber has been sued in various courts around the E.U., this particular case arises from a 2014 complaint brought against it in a Barcelona court by the Asociación Profesional Élite Taxi that goes to the heart of the definition of the company: Is it a transportation service or a digital platform? legislation removing barriers to trade across all E.U. member countries (“facilitating the exercise of the freedom of establishment for service providers and the free movement of services”) but excludes transportation services.

Source: Forbes November 28, 2016 21:52 UTC