| There was feverish horse-trading between party whips about the format of the set-piece debate. |
| That sort of horse-trading, if it is true, brings both the European Union as a whole and the Council in particular into disrepute. |
| Now their argument goes to Brussels, where horse-trading between European states will decide the fate of Scottish fishing. |
| Everyone I meet demands, for example, more transparency, more predictability and, above all, less political horse-trading on this issue. |
| Germany now faces weeks in limbo as the main parties indulge in horse-trading over all the possible permutations. |
| Yes, it would expose the unseemly work of legislative horse-trading without which successful coalition and law-making may not be possible. |
