--- title: "Uber pauses European food-delivery push for Delivery Hero" url: https://daily.dev/posts/uber-pauses-european-food-delivery-push-for-delivery-hero-o1sskyw5w source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/uber-europe-food-delivery-pause-delivery-hero type: article source: "The Next Web" published: 2026-07-06T14:49:06.016Z updated: 2026-07-06T14:49:27.862Z tags: ["business", "uber"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Uber pauses European food-delivery push for Delivery Hero **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Uber has quietly paused five of its seven planned 2026 European food-delivery market launches — Austria, Norway, Czech Republic, Romania, and Greece — proceeding only with Denmark and Finland. While Uber publicly frames this as focusing on successful existing markets, the likelier explanation is its ongoing pursuit of a ~€10bn takeover of Delivery Hero, the German food-delivery giant that rejected Uber's bid in May. Delivery Hero's brands (Foodora, efood, Glovo) operate in exactly the five paused markets, and launching Uber Eats against a company it's trying to acquire would create significant antitrust complications. Delivery Hero operates in 65 countries with 40,000 staff and leads food delivery outside the US, making it a transformative acquisition target for Uber. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Uber goes after Delivery Hero in full, with an offer that sits below the close](https://daily.dev/posts/uber-goes-after-delivery-hero-in-full-with-an-offer-that-sits-below-the-close-cazhxjqrh) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#business](https://daily.dev/tags/business), [#uber](https://daily.dev/tags/uber) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/uber-pauses-european-food-delivery-push-for-delivery-hero-o1sskyw5w)