English-German translation for "haggle"

haggle (also: to negotiate, to act, to trade, to merchandise)

to haggle [haggled|haggled] {vb} (also: to palter)

We see high-end haggling in fashion today.

High-end haggling for luxury and real estate.

What haggles will now take place over the'shortened period of liability '?

The negotiations of the last few days have proved that it was nothing but a laughable process of haggling.

It is necessary that, irrespective of the haggling about individual finance, that approach should be kept.

It is essential that our internal haggling is not at the expenses of the new candidate countries.

We have accepted the Commission’ s position, but we do not believe that haggling is a good sign for the future.

The Heads of State and Government locked themselves into short-term haggling, without any great vision of Europe's future.

And what a striking contrast we have seen between the stimulating content of the Laeken declaration and the haggling over agencies.

We cannot now accept last-minute deals and haggling that are not only against Parliament, but also against democracy and transparency.

The Council spent six years haggling over this compromise and, in doing so, evidently ignored the problems of the flying crew.

The European Union is therefore merely stalling for time so that it can finish haggling with the USA for control of Iraq's oil fields.

Let me say, with all the emphasis I can muster, that there must be no repetition of the haggling that we have seen going on over recent weeks and months.

To Mr Herzog, whose group I understand intends to adopt a similar position, I would like to say that I particularly liked your expression 'tough haggling '.

You now have an immense task ahead of you, one about which Mr Juncker spoke yesterday: the Financial Perspective, about which there was a fair old bit of haggling at the European Council.

Its conclusion was determined by negotiations and haggling behind the scenes, with nations ' own interests being played off against the European interest, and threats of vetoes being used.

To turn to the directive that Parliament is today being consulted on, it will undoubtedly be the subject of lengthy haggling in the Council, where unanimity is required.

But sitting up until all hours of the morning on three occasions haggling over ECU 40 million spread over four years is really going a little too far.

Over and above the legal quibbling on all sides, the Biarritz Summit has confirmed that the process of European enlargement is a matter of laborious haggling.