German Chancellor Olaf Scholz acknowledged the poor showing by his Social Democrats (SPD) in European Parliament elections and called for renewed efforts to move the country forward. Scholz played a prominent role in the SPD’s campaign, which ended with the SPD’s worst showing in a nationwide election in more than 130 years. “The election result was bad for all three governing parties,” said Scholz on Monday after a meeting with the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, in Berlin. “No one is well advised to simply go back to business as usual,” Scholz continued. But the chancellor said it is also…