Foreign media: French President Macron was exposed and colluded with Uber, secretly supporting Uber operations

Jimu Journalist Li Lili

Intern Yang Shaopeng

French President Macron has been annoying recently. According to the "Guardian" reported on July 10, multiple disclosure documents showed that Uber expanded the market through lobbying and colluding politicians from 2013 to 2017. Macron also appeared in the exposed document, when he was the Minister of Finance of France.

According to reports, these documents have more than 124,000 copies, including 83,000 emails and 1,000 other documents involving dialogue, with a time span from 2013 to 2017.

At that time, Uber was operated by co -founder Tellavis Kalanik. He tried to forcibly introduce online car rental to the world, involving 40 countries and regions, and even if it violates local laws and taxis regulations.

Travis Karanik (Picture Source: Guardian)

To this end, Uber hidden in support of politics, billionaires, oligarchs, and media tycies for support. In this way, they put pressure on the government, demanding rewriting the law to pave the way for Uber's market expansion.

When Uber was protested by a taxi driver in France, Macron gave firm support.

The disclosure document showed the text messages between Kalanick and Macron. Macron, then the Minister of Finance of France, secretly helped Uber, allowing Uber to contact him and his employees directly.

It is reported that Macron seemed to help Uber at the time, and even told Uber that he had reached a secret "transaction" with the opponents of the French cabinet.

French taxi driver protests at Uber (Picture Source: Guardian)

It is reported that in 2016, Uber plans to spend $ 90 million for lobbying and public relations.

Public reports show that in addition to meeting the then Vice President Biden at the Davos Forum, Uber executives also have Macron, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, Israeli Prime Minister Neitanahu, and then British finance The minister's Osborne met with a face -to -face meeting.

In this meeting of this meeting, Uber described Osben as "strong advocate".

Osburn later stated in a statement that the government's clear policy at that time was to meet with global technology companies and "persuaded them to invest in the UK and create employment opportunities here."

In 2016, Youbu obtained a business license in the UK. The angry taxi driver surrounded the white hall (picture source: Uber)

In addition, Uber also paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to well -known scholars to support Uber's research on its economic model advantages, trying to influence the country's policy debate.

Despite sufficient funds and lobbying, Uber's results are still halved. In some countries and regions, Uber successfully convinced the government to rewrite laws. But elsewhere, they are still difficult to walk.

In private, Uber's executives and employees also believe that the company's operation method is very "hooligan".

One executive wrote in an email: "We are illegal in many countries, and we should avoid hosting hostile remarks." Another executive wrote: "We have officially become pirates."

In 2014, the information sent by Uber Global Communication Director to a colleague even more bluntly said: "We encounter a problem because we are illegal."

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