Pro-business Macron was among influential world figures, including former EU commissioner Neelie Kroes, to offer his help to the new company, according to the Uber Files.įrench newspaper Le Monde reported a secret “deal” was put in place between Uber executives and French politicians, saying text messages between Kalanick and Macron detailed a total of four meetings between the two.Ī spokesperson for the French president said that, as finance minister, Macron’s role as finance minister “naturally led him to meet and interact with many companies engaged in the sharp shift which came out during those years in the service sector, which had to be facilitated by unlocking administrative and regulatory hurdles.” When we say Uber is a different company today, we mean it literally: 90 per cent of current Uber employees joined after Dara became CEO.”įrance was the scene of Uber’s first European launch, and it met fierce resistance from the taxi industry that spilled over into violent protests in 2015.
In a statement, Uber spokesperson Jill Hazelbaker acknowledged “mistakes” in the past and said current CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, hired in 2017, had been “tasked with transforming every aspect of how Uber operates. When protests against Uber drivers broke out in France, the company considered exploiting violence against its drivers by the taxi industry as a way to gain public sympathy, the consortium reported.
Access must be shut down in AMS (Amsterdam).” During a police raid in Amsterdam, the consortium reported that Kalanick personally issued an order: “Please hit the kill switch ASAP. The investigation found that Uber used stealth technology to fend off government investigations, including a “kill switch” that cut access to Uber servers and blocked authorities from grabbing evidence in raids in at least six countries. French President Emmanuel Macron was identified as a key ally when he was France’s finance minister, the investigation says, and was regularly contacted for help by Uber executives.
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