the fudge

18:39 Jan 17, 2019 

something along the lines of:

the ‘fudge’ on questions of applicable law
=
"solutions rafistolées" concernant la question de la loi applicable

My guess would be that they couldn't agree on some simple straightforward solution regarding the applicable law, so they resorted to some kind of mish-mash compromise. That would be a typical situation where you would end up with a "fudge".

Also, this being a EU directive, I very much doubt that it's "vague/flou" - more likely "une solution compliquée qui n'est pas vraiment la bonne solution".

15:01 Jan 17, 2019 

Personne ne nie que fudge puisse avoir le sens que vous citez et il est possible que ce soit le sens général de l'article à traduire. Mais ici on répond à une q sur un terme précis et votre propre réf. ci-dessous, du moins la partie que j'ai surlignée, dit la même chose que la déf. du R&C que j'ai reprise. Elles décrivent toutes le deux le caractère flou (ou vague, si vous voulez, mais je prèfère flou ici) du texte concerné et pourquoi par conséquent les lecteurs raged as to the meaning of the country of origin rule et pourquoi des suggestions have been made as to the interpretation.

11:30 Jan 17, 2019 

can't agree how to square the circle is to announce with great pompe that they have "agreed" - to solve the problem sometime in the future!

19:22 Jan 16, 2019 

That definition from R&C is poorly chosen: 'fudge' in the sense of 'deliberately mislead' is also a possibility, but it doesn't really imply that it is 'flou', so much as (e.g.) (volontairement) 'évasif'

18:51 Jan 16, 2019 

R&C: the wording is a total fudge : le libellé est très vague or flou.
À rapprocher du texte source : Arguments have raged as to the meaning of the country of origin rule // suggestions have been made as to the interpretation, ce qui évoque bien une difficulté à comprendre un texte qui donc doit paraître vague, ou flou.<p>Il est poss que comme le disent Tony et Daryo, il s'agisse d'une manière d'évacuer/cacher/esquiver un problème (et c'est d'ailleurs ce que signifie « entretenir un certain flou »), mais je me contente de traduire le texte qui est présenté. Je ne l'interprète pas.

18:27 Jan 16, 2019 

that this directive avoided really solving the issue of "applicable law" and instead offered solutions that are just "plastering the cracks".

18:22 Jan 16, 2019 

Although I don't usually set a great deal of store by Google translated, here are 2 of its offerings for the verb 'to fudge' — and thence the noun 'a fudge'. These are the sort of meanings I would udnerstand in this context:


truquer
rig, fake, fudge, cook, fiddle, copy

esquiver
dodge, avoid, evade, shirk, sidestep, fudge

And in the context here, I would udnerstand it along simialr lines to 'bodge' or 'botch', again, I feel this is the closest to that idea:

rafistoler
patch up, vamp, botch