[simo7]

> the government doesn't want thousands of taxi drivers without a job.

I don't know, I find this quite unfair to say to be honest.

Once you make an agreement, as non-sensical as it can be, you should hold your end up. Especially if you are an important institution.

The agreement here concerns the taxi licenses (and the fact that you can sell them). It's a bit selfish and narrow-minded to scrape off all that was agreed upon (leading people to pay 200k+ euros !) because "modernity" has arrived.

A better solution would be to legalize services like Uber and charge them a royalty fee for a certain number of years. The collected money should serve as a reparation to current owners of taxi licenses.