flounder

The country is floundering in the economic crisis.
Le pays est en pleine crise économique.
At a time when the country is floundering in obvious economic difficulties, with an alarming unemployment rate, these are instruments that should encourage young people.
À une époque où le pays se débat dans des difficultés économiques évidentes, avec un taux de chômage alarmant, ce sont des instruments qui devraient encourager les jeunes.
You see, for eight years in this Parliament, throughout Europe, we have been living not through a psychodrama, but through a political tragedy where Europe is floundering, and we can clearly see that we are avoiding the current problems.
Voyez-vous, depuis huit ans dans ce Parlement, dans l'Europe entière, nous vivons non pas un psychodrame, mais un drame politique où l'Europe s'est enlisée, et nous voyons bien que nous sommes en train de passer à côté des problématiques actuelles.
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