Doubtless, this will be another highly expensive quango.
Nul doute qu'il s'agira d'une nouvelle ONG européenne quasi-autonome qui coûtera fort cher.
There is a European advertising standards alliance and we do not want to create some separate organization - some new quango, as we say in British usage - to replicate what that does.
Il existe une alliance européenne pour le respect des normes en matière de publicité, et nous ne souhaitons pas créer une entité distincte, une nouvelle organisation non gouvernementale quasi autonome, qui aurait les mêmes activités.
It strikes me that the European Union is creating a further quango which, like most authorities the EU sets up, will be expensive to run and turn out to be a white elephant.
Je suis frappé par le fait que l'Union européenne crée encore un "quango" ("organisme non-gouvernemental quasi autonome"), dont le fonctionnement, comme la plupart des autorités que l'UE met en place, s'avérera cher et qui sera superflu.
But if they do not do that they become flaccid, rot and become totally useless - just another expensive quango, not actually achieving any great results.
Mais si elles ne font pas cela, elles perdent leur consistance, dépérissent et deviennent totalement inutiles - tout comme une expérience n'obtenant réellement aucun grands résultats.
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