1. 6 There will be no horse-trading and no electoral pacts.

2. Synonyms for Chaffering include bargaining, haggling, negotiating, dealing, dickering, paltering, horse-trading, wheeling and dealing, bartering and cutting a deal

3. Its notes cannot drown out the bickering of governments and the constant hubbub of the nationalistic horse-trading bazaar, nor can it drown out Europe’s agonised wailing as governments make it a scapegoat whenever they need one – the very Europe that those governments themselves have created.