objet de risée

Ces messieurs du Conseil ne sont pas parvenus à se mettre d'accord sur le président de la Banque centrale européenne, faisant de l'euro un objet de risée avant même son lancement.
The gentlemen of the Council did not manage to agree on the President of the Central Bank, making a mockery of the euro before it even gets off the ground.
C'est ce qui les rendra un objet de risée dans le pays d'Égypte.
This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Je suis chaque jour un objet de risée ; Tous se moquent de moi.
All the day I am an object of laughter; everyone mocks me.
Je n’en aborderai qu’un seul, la stratégie de Lisbonne, qui fait de nous, depuis ces cinq dernières années, un objet de risée.
I shall speak about one, the Lisbon Strategy, which is the issue that over the past five years has left us most open to ridicule.
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