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A poor showing by Germany’s Greens in the European Parliament elections has not prompted doubts about the party’s coalition with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, according to co-leader Omid Nouripour on Monday. “There is no need for a vote of confidence,” Nouripour said. He said that the Greens will stick with the four-year coalition agreement struck in 2021 with Scholz’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and the pro-business liberal Free Democrats (FDP). The Greens got 11.9% of the vote, down from 20.5% in the last European Parliament election in 2019. Nouripour said strong support for the far-right …

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