retrancher

Nous nous retranchons souvent derrière les insuffisances structurelles, certes existantes, dont la moindre n'est pas la condition de l'unanimité.
We often hide behind structural deficiencies and I would certainly acknowledge that there are structural deficiencies, not least the requirement for unanimity.
Nous nous retranchons donc de facto derrière le groupe de travail du CEN, pour ce qui est de trouver une solution définitive pour poursuivre le traitement de ce dossier.
So we are, de facto, hiding behind the CEN Workshop as regards a final solution as to how we take this forward.
Je constate que nous nous retranchons ici derrière des lignes idéologiques que nous avions pourtant largement dépassées lors de nos travaux sur cette résolution.
We made much more progress on this resolution in Parliament across all the party boundaries than we have done now.
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