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Following a poor showing by his Green Party in the European Parliament elections, German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck said the party needs to conduct a critical review of its mistakes. “The election was a hard blow for all governing parties, including my party,” Habeck acknowledged on Tuesday. All three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing coalition saw support slip in the European Parliament election, with Habeck’s Greens sliding to 11.9%, down from 20.5% in 2019. Together, the three coalition parties barely ran ahead of the opposition centre-right CDU/CSU bloc, who placed first. Th…

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