Pejorative word for events like ribbon-cutting ceremony, Association party & fests which are counterproductive activities for an organization

Pejorative word for attending "ribbon cutting ceremonies, ribbon cutting ceremonies, Association parties and fests" by a country's missions post abroad who are meant to be engaged in welfare of country's diaspora in a foreign country but instead do the above activities.

Example: The Ecuadorian embassy in Poland is hopeless and indifferent, they are most involved in ___________ (ribbon cutting ceremonies, Association parties and fests)

Dog and pony show

This is explained in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_and_pony_show

...a colloquial term which has come to mean a highly promoted, often over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or convince opinion for political, or less often, commercial ends. Typically, the term is used in a pejorative sense to connote disdain, jocular lack of appreciation, or distrust of the message being presented or the efforts undertaken to present it.

So for your example,

The Ecuadorian embassy in Poland is hopeless and indifferent, they are mostly involved in dog and pony shows.

pomp (Ceremony and splendid display, especially at a public event.) and pageantry; razzmatazz

ceremony, ceremoniousness, ceremonial, solemnity, ritual, display, spectacle, pageantry, pageant

show, showiness, ostentation, splendour, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, majesty, stateliness, glory, gloriousness, sumptuousness, opulence, lavishness, richness, brilliance, radiance, dazzle, theatricality, drama, flourish, glitter, style, éclat, resplendence, splendidness
informal pizzazz, razzle-dazzle, razzmatazz

src: ODOL

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