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Leaks show Macron secretly aided Uber, subverted France

Thursday, 14 July 2022 12:37 AM [ Last Update: Thursday, 14 July 2022 12:37 AM ]

Ramin Mazaheri

Press TV, Paris

French President Emmanuel Macron has become the highest-profile name tarnished by the so-called “Uber Files”, a massive leak of company documents. The whistle-blowing appears to detail the ride-hailing company’s lawbreaking and collusion with political elites across the West.

While Economy Minister under his predecessor, Francois Hollande, Macron apparently held secret meetings which resulted in secret deals that undermined laws created to regulate Uber, satisfy taxi drivers, protect passengers and honor the national labor code.

Leftist French parliamentarians openly accused Macron of serving the interests of an American company against his own government. Macron faced similar accusations in 2015, when he guided the sale of French energy giant Alstom to America's General Electric.

A defiant Macron shockingly said he would “do it again tomorrow”, even though Uber’s promises of good jobs and economic prosperity have resoundingly failed in France and elsewhere, and caused many indebted taxi drivers to commit suicide.

Macron has often been accused of attempting the “Uberisation” of all of French society - the accuracy of that criticism appears more just than ever.

The scandal is a reminder that while Western liberal economics claims to be based on fair, free-market competition, political corruption is routinely employed to create monopolies, inequalities and to subvert democratic laws.

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