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The authorities cancel the tip taxation on Friday afternoon, Public Finances minister Eugen Teodorovici announced in a statement at the ministry's headquarters.

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Two taxi drivers were arrested along with another two men on the Thessaloniki-Evzones national highway last Friday and charged with the illegal transfer of undocumented migrants after police located three vehicles, two taxis and a private car, carrying 16 migrants. Among the migrants, who were Syrian and Iraqi nationals, were five minors.

A Greek taxi driver was said to be in good health on Tuesday after a fire broke out in his vehicle while it was in motion.

The cabbie was driving through the neighborhood of Foinika in eastern Thessaloniki when the fire started.

Two fire engines were dispatched to the scene and extinguished the blaze, whose cause remained unclear.

The US company Uber is coming to Zagreb, Belgrade and other bigger cities in the region - but the application that enables people to get cheap rides is causing dismay among local taxi drivers.

The application enables ordinary people to register as drivers who are then contacted by the nearest passengers seeking transport.

The Bulgarian Commission on Competition Protection has started an investigation against the service for joint travel UberX, as reported by Investor.bg.

The municipality has stated that security in online payments poses a problem regardless of the company's assurances that this is not the case.

Two youths believed to be members of a criminal racket behind the violent mugging of a number of Athens taxi drivers over the past six months were to face a prosecutor on Wednesday as police sought another two suspected accomplices.

The two suspects, aged 16 and 19, are both members of the Roma community, according to police.

Trainotaxi services are coming to Athens following their successful application in the cities of Thessaloniki, Volos, Xanthi, Larisa, Katerini and Edessa. The pilot program in Athens will be implemented with thehelp of Kosmos 18300 that responded to the tender.

The Ministry of Transport has launched secret inspections of the cars used by electronic joint travel service Uber.

Taxi drivers in Bulgaria have vowed to start mass demonstrations unless Uber Bulgaria is banned from operating, an open letter of a trade union reads.

According to the Union Taxi, the company, which has been active in Bulgaria (mostly in the capital capital Sofia) since December of last year, is violating the country's legislation.

The Bulgarian National Income agency, Ministries of the Interior and Transport are organizing a joint inspection on the activities of Uber Bulgaria - an internationl transportation company that is a direct competitor to local taxi firms.