Translation of "Harte verhandlungen" in English

It was a hard-fought negotiation and that was the outcome.

On other issues too, the hard bargaining has been done.

So we have some hard negotiating ahead of us.

Undoubtedly, tough negotiations lie ahead on this front, including with Hollande.

This points to difficult negotiations.

We can expect these negotiations to be tough because of the innovatory nature of our proposals.

Copenhagen witnessed tough negotiations between the 15 Member States and the candidate countries.

Her husband drove a particularly hard bargain.

Hence, one can expect tough negotiations with the Council over the coming months.

I expect tough negotiations with the Council.

Thus we are still facing tough negotiations over the details.

This will be followed by tough negotiations, which will focus also on the payment of billions.

However, what is important now is that the Commission and the Member States drive a hard bargain in Copenhagen.

This framework forms a solid basis for rigorous and fair negotiations with Turkey.

I know that a great deal of reflection and intense negotiation have been put in since that point.

You boys are hard negotiators.

The transport and logistics companies once again face tough negotiations with their clients.

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.

The economic crisis is certainly hampering negotiations; however, tough negotiations on the back of people living in absolute poverty are, at best, morally questionable.

Therefore, Mr President, I would like to call out to the Commission: be tough in your conduct of the negotiations, Mr Bolkestein!

We need a protocol, so tough and intensive negotiations are required, and this is where Europe can speak with one voice.

I subscribe to that analysis, and we must also use that analysis in the forthcoming WTO negotiations so that we can adopt a firm stance in favour of those products which do not enjoy market protection.

Thirty years of difficult negotiations, exemptions and exceptions, a legal basis that only serves to give illegitimate powers to the Commission in Brussels, an attempt to transform a directive into a regulation using an implementation group.

Here, after all, was a meeting that, through tough but successful negotiations, reestablished international order after the upheavals caused by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

Accordingly, I think we should act within the remit of our international responsibility and ensure that we continue to exert the same benevolent influence after the elections that we had in the run-up to them. We can do this by driving a hard bargain, yet remaining specific, regarding the planned reforms in Zimbabwe.

So we shall have to be rather tough in our negotiations with the Swiss, given their missed opportunity for honorary membership, on this question of those who protect the fraudsters operating on Community territory or with the territory of the European Union.