Emmanuel Macron heckled during state visit to Netherlands


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Emmanuel Macron was heckled and jeered on a state visit to the Netherlands as he faced pressure over both raising the French pension age and his warning that Europe must not become “vassals” in a US conflict with China over Taiwan. The French president was due to give a speech on European strategic autonomy when two demonstrators against his pension changes were arrested as they ran towards him on his arrival at the University of Amsterdam. The speech, interrupted by repeated heckling, had been seen as a chance to clarify his remarks in an interview on Sunday in which he...