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“dame patronnesse” in English

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Force est de constater que Mme Ashton est plus douée pour les communiqués de presse moralisateurs de dame patronnesse que taillée pour les enjeux diplomatiques auxquels vous souhaitez la voir se confronter au nom des 27.
It is quite clear that Lady Ashton is more gifted at issuing moralising press releases and playing Lady Bountiful than she is cut out for dealing with the diplomatic issues that you want her to tackle on behalf of the 27 Member States.
Le rapport a, par moments, des accents de "dame patronnesse" et présente cette aide comme un acte de charité de l' Europe. Mais l' Europe, ou plus exactement sa classe privilégiée, est responsable de la ruine de l' Afrique, y compris sur le plan de son autosuffisance alimentaire.
In places, the report smacks of "Lady Bountiful" and presents this aid as an act of charity on the part of Europe, but Europe, or rather its privileged class, is responsible for the ruin of Africa, and that includes the ruin of its self-sufficiency in food.

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