A Barcelona-based association of taxi drivers on Thursday announced it would lodge a legal complaint against ride-hailing services Uber and Cabify for fraud and other offences.
Spanish ride-hailing service Cabify said Wednesday it will return to Barcelona, a month after it suspended its services in Spain's second-largest city due to strict new regulations.
US ride-hailing service Uber and its main Spanish rival Cabify said Thursday they were suspending their services in Barcelona after local authorities passed new rules which severely restrict how they operate in the city.
Barcelona taxi drivers called off a six-day strike Thursday after the regional government unveiled regulations to restrict ride-hailing services like Uber.
Uber and Cabify on Wednesday threatened to cease operations in Barcelona after the regional government unveiled new regulations which will severely restrict ride-hailing services, as taxis upped the pressure with a tense strike.
A taxi strike against Uber-like services in Madrid has entered its third day just as one of the world's biggest tourism fairs opened, with hundreds of drivers protesting at the convention centre.
A taxi driver protesting in Madrid against Uber-like services was seriously hurt in a car accident on Tuesday as a strike continued in the Spanish capital and Barcelona with sporadic clashes.
Madrid taxi drivers began an open-ended strike Monday against online ride-hailing services like Uber, joining their
counterparts in Barcelona who walked off the job three days ago.
Dozens of taxis in Barcelona started an indefinite strike on Friday, blocking a major thoroughfare in protest against online ride-hailing services like Uber.
Taxis in Madrid are to go on an indefinite strike Monday against online ride-hailing services like Uber just two days before the Fitur international tourism fair kicks off in the Spanish capital.
Uber and Cabify drivers are set to protest in Madrid on Thursday against a planned government decree they fear could threaten some 60,000 jobs, one of Spain's main unions said Wednesday.
Spanish taxis late on Wednesday called off their days-long strike against online ride-hailing services like Uber after Madrid agreed to let regional governments regulate the sector.
Taxi drivers across Spain were set to keep striking on Tuesday against ride hailing competitors such as Uber and Cabify, which they say unfairly threaten their livelihoods after government negotiations ended without a deal.
Uber and Cabify suspended their services in Barcelona on Wednesday after some of their drivers were attacked during a taxi strike, the association representing the ride-hailing companies said.
A Spanish court has ruled that a Deliveroo rider should have been treated as an employee, and not as a self-employed contractor, in the first ruling over the rights of the online food group's staffers in the country.
Uber said on Tuesday it was back in Barcelona with 120 professional drivers after it was forced out three years ago over the suspension of its service that enables unregulated drivers to ferry passengers for money using their own cars.
The European Union's top court ruled on Wednesday that Uber is an ordinary transport service and not just a ride-hailing app, meaning that countries can regulate it.
Ride-hailing app Uber may be a pioneer in its field but at heart it is an ordinary taxi company and should be regulated as such, a top EU lawyer said Thursday.
Authorities in Spain are probing BlaBlaCar and two drivers using the ridesharing platform for "transporting passengers without a licence", a worldwide first for the company, it said on Monday.
