{"id":20310,"date":"2017-12-20T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/20\/uber-to-face-stricter-eu-regulation-after-ecj-rules-it-is-transport-firm\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:52:00","slug":"uber-to-face-stricter-eu-regulation-after-ecj-rules-it-is-transport-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=20310","title":{"rendered":"Uber to face stricter EU regulation after ECJ rules it is transport firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company loses challenge by Barcelona taxi drivers\u2019 group, which argued Uber was directly involved in carrying passengersUber is a transport services company, the European court of justice (ECJ) has ruled, requiring it to accept stricter regulation and licensing within the EU as a taxi operator.The decision in Luxembourg, after a challenge brought by taxi drivers in Barcelona, will apply across the whole of the EU, including the UK. It cannot be appealed. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/dec\/20\/uber-european-court-of-justice-ruling-barcelona-taxi-drivers-ecj-eu\" target=\"_blank\">Uber to face stricter EU regulation after ECJ rules it is transport firm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company loses challenge by Barcelona taxi drivers\u2019 group, which argued Uber was directly involved in carrying passengersUber is a transport services company, the European court of justice (ECJ) has ruled, requiring it to accept stricter regulation and licensing within the EU as a taxi operator.The decision in Luxembourg, after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}