Translation of "Langwierige verhandlungen" in English

I can foresee a very long and very difficult discussion if this is going to take place.

This was followed by lengthy and difficult negotiations between the AVG and Deutsche Bundesbahn.

This had been preceded by lengthy and intensive negotiations with local authorities and land owners.

Long and uncertain negotiations with authorities can become a barrier.

Long negotiations are not a new thing for the ambassador.

The correct approach to a problem affected by labour laws can save you undesired costs or tedious negotiations.

Shopping takes up lot of time, as the mostly-boring negotiations are carried out.

As we know, there were long negotiations on the subject, but they did not end in an agreement.

A long negotiation between CDA and the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) followed.

Your personal endeavours have enabled the negotiations to produce positive results.

This agreement, reached after lengthy negotiations, is currently being ratified.

Major corporate transactions often run over a longer period of time – the result of lengthy negotiations or anti-trust approval processes.

The Alleanza Nazionale wants to know how there can be any question, after the loss of Malta, following hard negotiations, of now enlarging in a very short time to bring in, for example, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, while the statements of the French president are casting doubts on actually achieving Monetary Union within the pre-set deadlines. That same Monetary Union that - let us be clear - has to coincide with the achievement of political union.

We will have hard and difficult negotiations with them but the dialogue has to start somewhere.

It appears that even where non-controversial issues are concerned, conventions, protocols, agreements and declarations are used because they are unavoidable in an intergovernmental context, with endless negotiations between the governments beforehand and time-consuming ratification procedures in the Member States afterwards.

Not until the Palestinians switched to non-military methods, to civil disobedience through the intifada , to patient negotiations with an enemy perceived by them as fascist and racist - not until this happened did they begin to see signs of success.

Only through slow and painful negotiations with compromises can that occur, only then can the Israelis and Palestinians be secure in their own states.

In any event, it should not be the fishermen who foot the bill for the lengthy negotiations and renewal of agreements.

I believe that it is both a moderate and balanced document, which represents lengthy and successful negotiations between all our political groups - including, of course, Mr Sturdy's political group, as he made reference to it - and with the ACP.

Last week, we reached an understanding and an agreement as to how this matter could be resolved without a protracted and very difficult debate in the Conciliation Committee.

We are constantly saying that a great deal needs to be done at the IGC in Nice, that our own people have certain fears and that lengthy negotiations are still needed.

Mr Sjöstedt has shown considerable openness and a very great desire to achieve results, but I also think that the Commission and the Council - during both the Danish and Greek Presidencies - have made very positive contributions so that we can now avoid protracted discussion in the Conciliation Committee.

It is particularly important that the European Parliament managed, through long and difficult negotiations, to introduce important qualitative changes to the texts of the regulations, changes which will help to improve the quality of life of the citizens and to create actions and plans which will not result in divergence, changes which promote sustainable development and the democratisation of procedures to apply the funds through an enlarged partnership and the participation of representatives of civil society.

There were long negotiations with the Margraviate of Baden concerning a strategical marriage between the two dynasties which came to no conclusion.

The easy gains have already been banked; any further structural change will take longer to agree and be tougher to implement.

I welcome this breakthrough, which followed protracted negotiations, and I remain personally committed to working with the African Union.

However, the current procedure involves drawn-out and complicated negotiations, and causes delays in the setting up of infrastructure, as well as considerable legal and financial uncertainty.

In itself, the proposal certainly makes sense, but the complexity of the procedures for achieving a "charter" once again raises the problems discussed above: excessive plurality of the parties involved, conflicts of competence, lengthy deadlines.