The pressure is piling up on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left coalition after its bruising defeat in the European Parliament elections, as the three parties together secured less than a third of the vote. The main opposition conservatives, the CDU/CSU alliance, came out on top, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) placed second – despite the anti-Islam and anti-immigrant party being embroiled in a series of scandals, official figures showed on Monday. Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) saw their worst result ever in a nationwide election, a humiliation that was raising que…