pinaillage

L'heure n'est pas au pinaillage de sa part pour un montant somme toute très modeste.
This is no time for the Council to haggle over what is a tiny amount of money.
Mais nous voyons malheureusement comment le pinaillage juridique constitue un obstacle à la directive au sein du Conseil.
Unfortunately, we see, however, the way in which legal hair-splitting constitutes an obstacle to the directive in the Council.
La gauche a été rigide et récalcitrante, réduisant le débat à un pinaillage de droit comparatif, à un arbitrage entre des règles nationales.
The left has been rigid and obstructive, reducing the debate to a nitpicking exercise of comparative law, bargaining between national rules.
J'en ai assez de Mme Smith et de son pinaillage. Elle m'a enlevé dix points parce que j'ai oublié de mettre un accent !
I'm tired of Mrs. Smith and her nitpicking. She took off ten points because I forgot to put an accent mark!
L'indication du pays d'origine sur l'étiquette est un pinaillage européen inutile.
Stating the country of origin on the label is pointless European nitpicking.
Il ne s'agit pas de formalisme relatif à la compétence, et certainement pas d'un pinaillage juridique.
To say this is not to take a formalistic approach towards jurisdiction and certainly not to indulge in any sort of legal nitpicking.
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