Germany's environmentalist Greens were licking their wounds yesterday after their set-back at the hands of Chancellor Gerhard Schroder over government nuclear energy policy. Leaders of the Greens, the junior partner in Mr Schroder's SocialDemocrat-led government, lined up to criticise the chancellor's decision on Tuesday to bow to industry pressure and over-turn a coilition agreement to stop the reprocessing of nuclear waste from the start of next year.