Translation of "Fauler kompromiss" in English

No agreement is still better than a watered down compromise, however.

But I do not believe this is a sell-out.

No agreement is still better than a watered downcompromise, however.

That, though, is ridiculous; we are simply conning ourselves in what I regard as a typical sell-out.

This is a shaky compromise - no amount of glossing over can hide that fact.

If it indeed proves to be the case that here, too, a lazy compromise will be reached, this will once again undermine the credibility of the EU.

It is a cowardly compromise too, because rather than taking a clear political decision, everything is now being passed on to the courts.

The current solution, however, whereby at the General Assembly only a majority is needed for a state to be elected to the Council, but three-quarters of those present must vote in favour of exclusion from the Council, is a very weak compromise.

Sadly, I regret that it may well go down in history as somewhat a fudged affair.

So I believe it to be right that we should try to go down the road of compromise - the way pointed, thankfully, by the rapporteur - not an empty compromise but one that really shows the way things can go.

True failure would have been precisely a watered-down agreement incapable of ensuring the proper functioning of the Union in the future and its ability to act as a decisive political entity on the world stage.

I would very much like to remind you of the European Services Directive: in our view, it is a sell-out and it does not achieve what you claimed a short while ago.

But somehow you read with it that allows you to ... reward yourself once in a while, but ... Only a way that seem a compromise.

Adaptation is compromise.

The likeliest outcome of the current flurry of diplomacy will be a fudge, which both sides will present as the “best result possible.”

The struggle between Greece and its EU partners is weakening the euro and that's just what the Eurozone needs, the conservative daily the Evening Herald writes: "Grexit, or more likely a fudge followed by continuing uncertainty, is just what the doctor ordered to keep the euro weak on the foreign exchange markets and prevent the Eurozone from slipping into outright deflation - something that would further exacerbate the European economic crisis.

This search for the lowest common denominator does not necessarily mean a poor compromise; it is often a crucial step in the right direction.

Typical nerve factors are ineffective meetings and meetings where nothing comes out - or just a lazy compromise.

A political rotten compromise is a deal that helps establish or maintain an inhuman regime: a re-gime which combines cruelty and humiliation.

This feeble compromise is a gift to the industry.

The 'novel foods' regulation is based on this dubious compromise text.

That is why we shall vote against this directive and this poor compromise.

But he ended up offering a fudge.

They preferred an "honourable downfall" to an apparently foul compromise.

The teachers reject this lazy compromise.

On the face of it, this sounds like a bit of a compromise.

The European Parliament was right in not making an uneasy compromise.

For the sake of a dubious compromise with these politicians, the Foreign Ministers accepted Mr Koschnick's resignation.