歐盟庇護申請手續緩慢幾乎停滯

The European Union says its asylum processing is so clogged with foreign migrants seeking refuge that it would take a year to process all pending applications if the migrant influx stopped immediately.

歐盟說，外國移民尋求避難的申請過程極爲緩慢，如果現在移民馬上停止涌入，仍需要一年時間處理所有申請。

That analysis from the Malta-based European Asylum Support Office came Tuesday, as thousands of migrants - many of them from war-torn Syria and Afghanistan - continued arriving daily on Greek islands before pushing westward through the Balkans to western Europe. Italy has also been inundated in the past year with migrants, mostly from Africa and Asia.

總部設在馬耳他的歐洲庇護服務辦事處星期二公佈這一分析報告的同時，數千名大部分來自戰火紛飛的敘利亞和阿富汗的移民每天繼續抵達希臘島嶼，之後他們向西穿過巴爾幹國家前往西歐。意大利過去一年也有大批移民涌入，其中大多數來自非洲和亞洲。

The EASO released data showing a backlog of 800,000 applications for international protection through September.

歐洲庇護服務辦事處的數據顯示，到9月份爲止有80萬份要求避難的申請。

It also said almost one in three migrants has been waiting at least three months for applications to be processed, and said 200,000 applicants have been waiting six months or longer.

辦事處說，幾乎每三名移民中就有一人等候申請處理至少三個月，有20萬申請者等候了六個月或更長。

Ahead of a two-day EU summit in Malta with African heads of state, the EASO also said it had received fewer than half the workers requested from EU countries to process asylum applications.

歐盟將與非洲首腦們在馬耳他舉行兩天的峯會。在這之前，歐洲庇護服務辦事表示只從歐盟國家得到了處理庇護申請的工作人員人數的一半。

It said it had asked for more than 370 workers, but that only 177 asylum experts had so far been provided, slowing the process so much that only 147 migrants have been officially relocated in Sweden, Finland, Luxembourg, France and Spain since a EU relocation plan was approved last month.

辦事處表示曾提出需要370多名工作人員，但是目前爲止只得到177名庇護專家。這大大放慢了處理的速度，以致自上個月歐盟批准移民搬遷計劃以來，只有147名移民正式遷移到瑞典、芬蘭、盧森堡、法國和西班牙。