Overview

• Taxi drivers organized motorcades in over a dozen cities on July 1–2, including rallies in Frankfurt and a 300-vehicle procession in Hannover, to demand pricing parity with traditional fares.
• Associations such as Taxi-Vereinigung Frankfurt and Bundesverband Taxi und Mietwagen are calling for a uniform minimum rate of €2.20 per kilometer for app-based ride-hailing.
• The taxi industry alleges that Uber, Bolt and other platforms exploit contractors through undeclared work, social-insurance fraud and missing permits to offer lower prices.
• Uber and the Bundesverband Wirfahren reject mandatory price floors, warning that fixed tariffs could raise costs for consumers, reduce vehicle occupancy and hurt driver incomes.
• While Berlin’s Senate continues to evaluate a minimum-fare proposal and Leipzig’s rules have been twice overturned in court, Freenow has ended rental-car mediation in Cologne.