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Italian taxi drivers protest, urge crackdown on competitors

ROME, Feb 21 (Reuters) Italy's taxi drivers staged a sixth day of protests in major cities today and blocked central Rome to try to force the government to crack down on burgeoning limousine businesses and the app-based Uber service.
The taxi revolt broke out last week when the ruling Democratic Party (PD) said it would delay yet again introducing norms aimed at regulating car-hire and car-share schemes.
Taxi drivers operate under rigid regulation and say they are being penalised by the growth of little-monitored app-based services like Uber, which connect users to the nearest drivers via smartphone, and increasingly popular chauffeured limousines.
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