奥地利法官与检察官本周罢工抗议人手短缺：全国缺法官逾250名、检察官约70名
维也纳——据路透社10月12日报道，奥地利全国法官与检察官自10月12日（周一）起展开为期一周的罢工行动，本周内停止处理非紧急事务，以抗议司法系统长期人手不足，并要求政府在削减预算赤字的同时补足司法编制缺口。
短缺的规模已有具体数字。奥地利全国法官协会估计，目前全国法官缺口超过250名；检察官协会副会长安娜-玛丽亚·武科维茨（Anna-Maria Wukovits）在罢工启动的记者会上对媒体表示，检察官缺口约为70名。她在会上说，检察官们已经到了极限。武科维茨指出，工作量上升的原因包括网络犯罪等案件日趋复杂，以及如今大量刑事投诉由人工智能代写、动辄成沓文件，仍须由检察官逐页人工审查。
法官协会会长格哈德·卡尔穆特（Gerhard Karmuth）在声明中表示，法治不能长期靠法官无偿加班来维持，同事们多年来靠晚上、周末甚至休假时间工作，填补结构性的人手缺口。与许多欧洲国家一样，奥地利司法系统积压严重，案件量持续增长，审理延误已成常态，这也是此次集体行动的背景。
政府一方的难处在于财政。奥地利司法部对法官和检察官的处境表示理解，但称政府当前优先事项是把预算赤字降回欧盟规定的上限以内——奥地利去年赤字占经济产出的4.1%，明显高于欧盟3%的上限。补员诉求与财政紧缩之间的拉锯，使本周罢工成为奥地利新一轮公共部门劳资议题的焦点；罢工期间紧急事项仍照常处理，非紧急案件的排期将受到影响。
来源：据路透社2026年10月12日发自维也纳的报道整理。
Austria's Judges and Prosecutors Strike for a Week Over Staff Shortages: 250-Plus Judges and About 70 Prosecutors Short
VIENNA — Austria's judges and prosecutors began a week of strike action on Monday, October 12, halting work on non-urgent matters to protest chronic staff shortages and to demand that the state fill the gaps even as the government works to bring its budget deficit back within the European Union's limit, Reuters reported on October 12.
The scale of the shortfall has been quantified by the professions themselves. Austria's national judges' association estimates the country is currently short of more than 250 judges, while Anna-Maria Wukovits, vice president of the Austrian Prosecutors' Association, told a press conference opening the protest week — and national broadcaster ORF — that the prosecutor shortage is around 70. Wukovits said prosecutors have reached their limit. She pointed to rising workloads driven by ever more complex cases such as cybercrime, and by criminal complaints now often drafted with artificial intelligence that run to reams of pages yet still require manual review by prosecutors.
Gerhard Karmuth, president of the Austrian Judges' Association, said in a statement that the rule of law cannot be maintained in the long term only through judges' unpaid overtime, noting that for years colleagues have covered structural staff shortages by working evenings, weekends and even holidays. As in many European countries, Austria's judiciary is weighed down by delays and backlogs as case numbers keep growing, the backdrop against which the walkout was called.
On the government side, the constraint is fiscal. The justice ministry has expressed sympathy for judges and prosecutors but says the government's current priority is reducing the budget deficit, which came in last year at 4.1% of economic output — well beyond the EU's 3% ceiling. That tension between hiring demands and austerity makes this week's action a focal point in Austria's wider public-sector labor debate. Urgent matters continue to be handled during the strike, while scheduling of non-urgent cases is affected.
Source: Compiled from Reuters reporting from Vienna, October 12, 2026.
图片来源：维也纳司法宫（Justizpalast）大楼梯与正义女神像，Hubertl 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0（Wikimedia Commons）
