Everywhere you turn in
the British negotiating position there are weaknesses.
Not exact matches
«European democracy, and I think also
British democracy, has not been established to diminish the rights of citizens but to protect the rights of citizens,» he said, reiterating his often repeated
position that the European Parliament will insist
negotiating teams must focus on this issue.
«A clarification of the UK
position is indispensable for us to
negotiate and for us to make sufficient progress on this financial dossier, which is inseparable from the other withdrawal dossiers... As soon as the UK is ready to clarify the nature of its commitments, we will be prepared to discuss this with the
British negotiators.»
From the period before the conference, Steil shows that Keynes changed his
negotiating stance and overestimated his intellectual ability to persuade the Americans to accept the
British position.
The author demonstrates that, by 1944, the
British Empire was not in a
position to
negotiate as an equal with the US.
It would take years to
negotiate the new
British position.»