leaked documents show president emmanuel macron and a former eu competition commissioner held a series of private meetings with uber. at the time, the ride sharing app had been banned in france and sparked protests across europe from taxi drivers who felt their livelihoods were being threatened. as part of an investigation by the international consortium of investigativejournalists, the bbc has discovered how uber used political contacts to get what it wanted. richard bilton reports. when hoover first arrived when hooverfirst arrived in france, it started a taxi well. but while many cabdrivers were on the streets, the leak shows uber had a friend in government. documents show despite uber offering an legal service, emmanuel macron then nestorfor service, emmanuel macron then nestor for economic service, emmanuel macron then nestorfor economic and service, emmanuel macron then nestor for economic and digital affairs, agreed to help them change the law. the leak shows uber offe
on the streets, the leak shows uber had a friend in government. documents show despite uber offering an legal service, emmanuel macron then nestorfor service, emmanuel macron then nestor for economic service, emmanuel macron then nestorfor economic and service, emmanuel macron then nestor for economic and digital affairs, agreed to help them change the law. the leak shows uber offered to draft new legislation. and thanked mr macron for his cooperation. president macron spokesperson said it was hisjob president macron spokesperson said it was his job to work with tech companies and to remove barriers. the leak shows how cuba went about changing and around the world. berber. in 2016 documents show their lobbying and pr budget was $90 million. it is
bandwidth and clout in numbers in the parliament to make a majority in government. but all of this political turmoil is dealing with an economic revival plan. the international monetary fund having bailout conversations with the country said they will wait till the political turmoil settles down before they will sign some agreement on the bailout talks for which the staff level and technical meetings are done. the politics and the protest you can see behind me, still angry and this needs to settle before economics can be managed. let s get some of the day s other news. keep an eye on twitter shares when markets open on wall street later. it s share price fell by some 7% in after hours trading on friday following the announcement from elon musk that he s seeking to end his $41; billion bid to buy twitter, alleging multiple breaches of the agreement. twitter says it now plans
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