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Macron visit to Netherlands soured by protests and Taiwan comments

French President Emmanuel Macron's two-day state visit to the Netherlands was on Wednesday dogged by further protests over his pension reforms at home, and his controversial comments urging European nations to act independently from the US over increasing tensions between China and Taiwan.     

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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, reports The Guardian.

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