France - Government considers reform in standoff with taxi drivers - May 31, 2025

The Government said it would re-examine a proposed reform after taxi drivers threatened to step up protestactions, including  access to city and  airports. Taxi drivers have blocked roads at points across the country in an increasingly acrimonious standoff with the government about payments for transporting patients, which for many cab drivers form a major part of their businesses. Some 1,200 cabs were parked on a boulevard near the transport ministry's offices in Paris. Their chief demand is the scrapping of new rules coming into force in October on the transportation of patients to harmonise prices nationwide, which the taxi drivers say will severely erode their income.

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