Translation of "Ernsthafte verhandlungen" in English

Obviously, many finance ministers did not support real negotiation.

Extremists on both sides are opposed to the renewal of serious negotiations.

All the problems need to be addressed peacefully through serious and credible negotiations.

Serious negotiations have been going on for four years.

There will be serious negotiations between the Council, the Commission and Parliament.

Indeed, prospects for serious Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at this time are bleak.

In such an atmosphere, serious negotiations are also significantly more successful.

We want serious and substantive negotiations on the Iranian nuclear programme.

It is necessary, in order for serious negotiations to get under way, for those settlements to stop.

So firstly, we must begin serious negotiations with Ukraine on closer energy cooperation.

As a result, the two sides have become stuck in a passive-aggressive standoff that has made serious negotiation impossible.

What is needed is a serious negotiation about Iran's nuclear programme and other issues of mutual concern.

Commissioner Mac Sharry decided that the moment was right to get down to some serious negotiations in agriculture in the Uruguay Round.

We can also press for serious negotiations between the FMLN and the govetnment.

Israel rejects any negotiations, for these would require the readiness for a compromise.

Even less clear is if and when the negotiations for Turkey’s admission will begin in earnest.

It remains to be seen whether new governments in Madrid and Barcelona will make a start on real negotiations....

It offers the best basis for convincing our citizens in local debate and for entering into serious negotiations with the Council, which is unfortunately notable by its absence today.

I am here to take an initiative that I hope, with your help, will defuse the tensions and allow serious negotiations to start.

I should like to hope that those who wish to hold elections will realize that these elections just complicate the situation, and that they will postpone them and so demonstrate that they are prepared to go on to sincere and serious negotiations with the government of Georgia, to bring peace to that long-suffering area.

We welcome the Palestinians' wise decision to take no unilateral action and we hope that serious negotiations can be resumed as soon as possible.

If you want to have trade agreements, if we do believe - which I think we do - that trade is the engine that will take us out of recession, then it means you have serious, tough negotiations with industries and with countries that we care about having a deal with.

I look forward to further details of this plan and hope that it can form the basis for meaningful negotiations.

It does not take much to realise, Commissioner, that what we should have done was to use serious negotiations to bring moderate countries which do not use capital punishment over to our side, countries which had taken positions and which were sensitive regarding the preamble - I repeat, the preamble - based on an article in the United Nations Charter.

I conclude by saying that there is a gleam of hope that the dialogue may be continued, that serious negotiations can take place. But I should immediately add that we should understand clearly that the greatest possible vigilance is needed to prevent the process from sliding back into in the bloody violence which plagued the region before.