The city of Paris is loosening its famously tight control on taxi licences and offering more licences for vehicles that can carry wheelchair users and people with reduced mobility - part of a scheme to improve accessibility in time for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Taxi drivers caused traffic chaos around Paris on Monday morning as they blocked the peripherique ring road around the French capital as part of a joint protest with driving instructors and ambulance workers. But what's all the fuss about?
A list of this year's official taxi prices has been published in France, revealing how much you should be coughing up for a cab journey wherever you are in the country in 2019.
Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris has introduced a new scheme to protect tourists from rogue taxi drivers after one couple were hit with a €247 bill by an illegal cabbie.
Two frightened tourists arriving in Paris had a nasty shock recently when they were asked to pay a whopping €247 taxi bill from Charles de Gaulle airport into the French capital.
French taxi drivers, who have long battled against Uber, have now declared war on Estonian start-up Taxify, blocking its recruitment offices in protest at its "aggressive" arrival in Paris.
Ride-hailing app Uber is upping its prices in France, the company announced on Thursday, in a move aimed at improving pay and conditions for its drivers.
Roads in and around the city of Toulouse were blocked on Monday morning as over 1,000 taxis protested against “unfair competition” from private minicab firms.
Ride-sharing service Uber is going offline for four hours on Tuesday to show its support for private minicab drivers in their ongoing war against traditional taxi drivers.
UPDATED: The dispute between taxis and private mini-cab firms like Uber looked like boiling over with further protests on Friday at Charles de Gaulle airport and in the centre of the city.
French taxi drivers continued to hold protests in cities across France on Wednesday as they aimed to put pressure on the government to bow to their demands. In the west farmers also blocked roads.
Taxi drivers blockaded airports in Paris on Tuesday and flights had to be cancelled as air traffic controllers also staged industrial action. Here's all the latest.
Thousands of French taxi drivers staged protests on Tuesday claiming their livelihoods are being threatened. Many told The Local that all they want are laws to be enforced and that the public should back their fight.
Uber France and two of its bosses will go on trial in September over the company's allegedly "illegal" ride-booking practices, prosecutors said on Tuesday, after violent protests by taxi drivers against the app.
Two of the bosses of Uber France have been arrested by police and taken into questioning, reports claim on Monday. It comes after France declared war on the UberPop ride-sharing app.
French taxi drivers have never been the most cherished bunch of people but after this week’s violent protests any sympathy the general public had for cabbies appears to have been extinguished.
French president François Hollande has stepped in to condemn the violent protests by taxi drivers and called for UberPop to be taken off the road. A number of taxi drivers continued their strike on Friday.
UPDATED: The French government responded to nationwide protests by taxi drivers on Thursday by vowing to crackdown on ride-sharing app UberPop. There were ugly scenes across the country as protests turned violent.
Rocker Courtney Love blasted the French president on Thursday saying "where are the f**king police" after the car she was travelling in was attacked in violent anti-Uber protests in Paris. Tourists also spoke of their shock as cars were burned and vandalized.
