German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his entire government are, in his own words, “relieved” about the outcome of the parliamentary elections in France, which saw the far right fail to achieve a breakthrough and an unexpected win for the left. It would have been a major challenge if French President Emmanuel Macron had to agree to work with a right-wing populist party, Scholz said on the fringes of a visit to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf) in Nuremberg. “That has now been averted,” he added. The secretary general of Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), Kevin Kühner, reacted more…