欧盟庇护申请手续缓慢几乎停滞

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.

欧盟说，外国移民寻求避难的申请过程极为缓慢，如果现在移民马上停止涌入，仍需要一年时间处理所有申请。

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.

总部设在马耳他的欧洲庇护服务办事处星期二公布这一分析报告的同时，数千名大部分来自战火纷飞的叙利亚和阿富汗的移民每天继续抵达希腊岛屿，之后他们向西穿过巴尔干国家前往西欧。意大利过去一年也有大批移民涌入，其中大多数来自非洲和亚洲。

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

欧洲庇护服务办事处的数据显示，到9月份为止有80万份要求避难的申请。

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.

办事处说，几乎每三名移民中就有一人等候申请处理至少三个月，有20万申请者等候了六个月或更长。

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.

欧盟将与非洲首脑们在马耳他举行两天的峰会。在这之前，欧洲庇护服务办事表示只从欧盟国家得到了处理庇护申请的工作人员人数的一半。

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.

办事处表示曾提出需要370多名工作人员，但是目前为止只得到177名庇护专家。这大大放慢了处理的速度，以致自上个月欧盟批准移民搬迁计划以来，只有147名移民正式迁移到瑞典、芬兰、卢森堡、法国和西班牙。