What does helplessness and frustration look like? A bit like Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock one day after the Bundestag elections. The still-vice chancellor and foreign minister both looked extremely serious when they met journalists in the German capital, Berlin.

The Greens came away with 11.61% of Sunday's vote, compared to their 14.8% share in 2021.

A coalition partner in the previous government, the Greens will now be relegated to the opposition.

The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their sisterChristian Socialists (CSU) party will likely form a coalition with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), leaving the Greens with no real say in the next government.

Until CDU leader

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