德國聯合政府在難民問題上公開分歧

Germany’s coalition government has split publicly over how to respond to Europe’s migrant crisis after its conservative interior minister proposed sending back refugees to countries bordering their war-torn homelands.

德國聯合政府在如何應對歐洲移民危機的問題上出現公開分歧。此前，保守派內政部長提出，要將難民遣返至他們飽受戰火蹂躪的家園的周邊國家。

Thomas de Maiziere, whose handling of a massive influx of asylum seekers has prompted widespread domestic criticism, suggested that the EU should set an overall cap beyond which refugees would be sent back to the region of origin. But the idea was swiftly shot down by social democrat deputy chancellor Sigmar Gabriel as unconstitutional and contrary to government policy.

德國內政部長托馬斯德邁齊埃(Thomas de Maiziere)應對尋求庇護者大量涌入的措施招致了國內的廣泛批評。他建議歐盟應設置總量限制，超出上限的難民將被遣返原籍所在地區。但這一構想很快被社民黨副總理西格馬爾加布里爾(Sigmar Gabriel)斥爲違憲，而且違反政府政策。

The split came as John Kerry, US secretary of state, announced in Berlin that the US would raise to 100,000, from 70,000 currently, the number of worldwide refugees it accepts annually by 2017. Most of the additional number would be from Syria.

在這些分歧公開之際，美國國務卿約翰·克里(John Kerry)在柏林宣佈，到2017年，美國將把每年接收世界範圍內難民的上限從現在的7萬人增至10萬人。大部分增加的名額將用於接收敘利亞難民。

Asked after talks on the issue with German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier why the US would not take more of the hundreds of thousands pouring into Europe, Mr Kerry blamed security screening requirements and lack of funds approved by Congress.

克里與德國外長弗蘭克-瓦爾特施泰因邁爾(Frank-Walter Steinmeier)就難民問題進行了磋商。之後，在被問及爲何美國不願接收涌入歐洲的數十萬難民中的更多人時，克里將此歸咎於安全審查要求以及缺乏美國國會批准的資金。

The coalition spat highlighted German leaders’ struggle to balance chancellor Angela Merkel’s pledge to welcome more refugees than ever before, with the country’s capacity to cope with the tens of thousands arriving at its frontiers every week. Berlin expects to receive 1m asylum seekers in 2015.

聯合政府的內部分歧突顯了德國領導人正疲於平衡德國總理安格拉默克爾(Angela Merkel)做出的比以往任何時候歡迎更多難民的承諾與該國每週接收數萬到達其邊境的難民的能力之間的矛盾。柏林預計在2015年接收100萬名尋求庇護者。

Last week Germany reimposed controls at its southern border and the head of its refugee and migrants agency resigned. Berlin will tomorrow push other EU countries — some against their will — to share out 160,000 asylum-seekers currently in Greece and Italy.

上週，德國重新在其南部邊境實施管控，而該國難民與移民機構負責人已經辭職。明日，柏林方面將推動其他歐盟國家——一些並不願意——分攤目前滯留希臘和意大利境內的16萬難民。