English-French translation for "farcical"

farcical {adj.} (also: burlesque)

farcical {adj.} (also: zany)

We can debate the matter tomorrow, but not with your farcical behaviour.

Mr President, to call this a debate about the future of Europe is frankly farcical.

What is farcical about this is that the revolt against the Europe that we have makes the new Europe impossible.

At the moment they are going through a consultation on the proposed closures, which is frankly farcical.

The farcical ending of the negotiations resulted in a dilution of the quality of the final document.

About eighty democracy activists have been arrested and sentenced, following farcical trials, to very long prison sentences.

This claim would be too farcical for comment if it were not a smear campaign.

This quite farcical situation at least has the merit of showing that the ECB is primarily concerned with the repressive side of its action.

I have also invited you here in order to respond to the farcical performance of the President of the United States yesterday in the White House.

No maximum is set by the Council - which is very interesting - yet it has set a maximum for recycling targets, which is farcical.

Leading figures in the democracy movement were arrested and, after farcical trials, 75 of them were sentenced to long prison terms.

But could we please stop this farcical pretence that it has got anything to do with the criteria of dealing with the justice system or them fulfilling the.

I think that this is not the time to transfer American kitsch to the European Union and for us to become even more farcical than we were on the issue of Iraq.

The international community had done nothing to stop Russia from flouting the democratic process, and conducting a farcical referendum and elections.

It is farcical that the country that harbours ill will towards Somalia and its people seeks to use Somalis to fight its war against Eritrea.

In a farcical trial, 15 people have been sentenced to death in Equatorial Guinea and 117 people have been judged and also given varying sentences, in addition to being tortured.

Mr President, I am speaking to propose that this Parliament express its condemnation and rejection of the farcical presidential elections which took place in Equatorial Guinea.

All of the circumstances surrounding the farcical trial which took place are extremely suspicious and it is not clear how the uprising itself began or developed.

He received six years in jail for corruption, following what most outside observers considered to be farcical proceedings which were a travesty of any notion of justice.

He states that the appeal was a farcical exercise and that the outcome was predetermined, as shown also by the refusal to grant him legal aid.