Squad Dem slams Vance’s DOJ fraud probe claims: ‘They’re just saying stupid shi—-

2026-05-21 10:58am EDT / Fox News

Vance claimed the administration’s anti-fraud task force is focusing its resources on probing Omar

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Published May 21, 2026 10:58am EDT

Omar mocks Vance DOJ immigration fraud probe claim: ‘They’re just saying stupid s—’

Rep. Ilhan Omar denied Vice President JD Vance’s claim that the Justice Department is investigating her for immigration and fraud violations, accusing Republicans of pushing allegations for attention and TV interviews.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., forcefully denied Vice President JD Vance’s claim that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating her for alleged fraud and immigration violations, dismissing the remarks as politically motivated.

“That is not something that is happening. That man is delusional,” Omar told Fox News Digital.

Vance claimed on Tuesday that the DOJ is looking into allegations involving Omar’s immigration history and financial disclosures, including longstanding accusations that she married a man claimed to be her brother — part of her scheme to obtain citizenship in the U.S. He claimed the administration’s anti-fraud task force is focusing its resources on probing Omar.

ILHAN OMAR LASHES OUT AT ‘SICK’ REPUBLICANS FOR INVESTIGATING HER ALLEGED MARRIAGE TO BROTHER

Rep. Ilhan Omar dismissed Vice President JD Vance’s claims that the Justice Department is investigating her for alleged immigration and fraud violations, referring to House Republicans attention to the matter as politically motivated.(Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“I don’t think they are using any resources,” she said. “They’re just saying stupid shi—-.”

The claims surrounding an investigation intensified after Omar’s amended financial disclosure forms caught national attention last month — with her reported net worth dropping from somewhere between $6 million and $30 million to a sharp reduction ranging from $18,004 to $95,000.

Omar’s steep drop in reported net worth drew criticism from the GOP House Oversight Committee, who earlier this year requested business records from her husband Tim Mynett’s company.

Omar also rejected suggestions that House Republicans are formally investigating her finances, accusing them of promoting these allegations to get interviews with news outlets.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar spoke at a press conference at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., on Aug. 19, 2024, with Rep. Rashida Tlaib standing beside her.(Photo by Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

“There’s nobody looking into anything,” she said when asked about House Republicans looking into her net worth. “They’re just saying those things to get interviews with you guys. There’s nothing really happening.”

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., publicly raised concerns over Omar’s finances on “Hannity” after the vast discrepancy between her initial and revised filings.

“Comer hasn’t investigated anything,” she said when asked about Comer’s comments regarding her wealth. “He hasn’t done anything. He hasn’t referred me to anybody. He’s just saying that so he can get TV interviews because you guys will only talk to them if they say something about me.”

Omar said they’re “absolutely not” going to find anything if a DOJ probe opens into her alleged fraud schemes.

She told Fox News Digital that she has not been informed of any formal investigation being pursued against her.

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“No,” she said when asked if she was made aware of any investigation. “Because there’s nothing to investigate.”

Claims surrounding Omar’s past marriage and alleged immigration violations have remained central to ongoing attacks against her. Omar’s family was granted asylum after arriving in the U.S. from Somalia in 1995, and she became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000.

It was reported that Omar was in a religious marriage with Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in 2002. Despite maintaining her religious union with Hirsi, she legally married a British citizen named Ahmed Elmi — who is alleged to be her brother — in 2009.

Omar and Elmi legally divorced in 2017, but had been separated since 2011. In 2020, she married Mynett.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer speaks to the media about his committee’s investigation into former President Joe Biden’s cognitive state in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on July 24, 2025.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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Any potential investigation would likely look into both the fraud allegations that come as a result of her incohesive financial filings and claimed immigration violations relating to her earlier marriages and U.S. citizenship.

“If we think that there’s a crime, we’re going to prosecute that crime,” he said. “And that’s something the Department of Justice is looking at right now.”

Hannah Brennan is a Digital Production Assistant on the Politics team. She previously interned at the Aspen Daily News, where she covered local government meetings, community developments, cultural events and nationally significant political events. Her reporting included coverage of the Aspen Security Forum and appearances by prominent leaders such as former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. She graduated early with high distinction from the University of Colorado Boulder in December 2025 and joined Fox News Digital in January 2026.

市场人士认为，未来一年油价将在每桶100美元左右见顶。 （路透社）

随着伊朗战争导致数百万桶原油供应损失，石油市场参与者不得不放缓需求来平衡供需缺口，市场越来越倾向于认为，未来一年油价将在每桶100美元（近128新元）左右见顶。

这是彭博行业研究本月一项调查得出的结论之一。这项调查共收到126份回复，受访者包括资产管理机构及其他能源市场专业人士。

多数市场参与者预计，未来12个月布伦特原油均价将在每桶81至100美元之间。近三分之二的受访者认为，油价将在未来数年持续包含每桶5至15美元的风险溢价，而认为这一溢价会超过20美元的人则很少。

萨利赫·伊尔马兹（Salih Yilmaz）和威尔·黑尔斯（Will Hares）等彭博行业研究分析师指出：“这一分布表明，市场认为地缘政治风险将持续存在，但尚不足以从根本上重塑长期油价体系。相反，受访者似乎认为，供需将逐步重新平衡，从而使油价维持在相对稳定区间。”

调查显示，“需求破坏”被认为是未来一年弥补供应缺口最可能出现的调节机制，其次是贸易流向重新调整、石油输出国组织+（OPEC+）政策调整以及释放战略储备。多数受访者预计，全球原油供应中断规模平均将在每日300万至700万桶之间，很少有人预计供应中断规模会超过每日1000万桶。

伊朗战争已严重限制霍尔木兹海峡通行，推高全球能源价格和通胀水平。不过，尽管实物供应趋紧迹象显现，国际油价整体表现仍相对温和。

被视为欧洲科技界领军人物之一的富凯（Christophe Fouquet）星期三（5月20日）参加在比利时安特卫普举行的科技活动。 （路透社）

（安特卫普综合讯）荷兰光刻机巨头阿斯麦（ASML）首席执行官富凯说，收紧光刻机对中国市场的出口管制，将加速中国自主研发替代设备的步伐。

被视为欧洲科技界领军人物之一的富凯（Christophe Fouquet）星期三（5月20日）参加在比利时安特卫普举行的科技活动接受路透社采访时呼吁，针对晶片制造设备输华的出口，制定更为一致的规则。

美国国会4月提出《硬件技术控制多边协同法案》（MATCH法案），要求荷兰和日本等盟友遵守美国出口管制措施，防止中国获取先进晶片制造设备。这项法案在现行极紫外光刻机（EUV）对华全面禁售的基础上，将浸没式深紫外光刻机（DUV）等设备也纳入全面限制。荷兰政府对上述法案予以反对。

富凯说，阿斯麦目前向中国出售的DUV设备，本身就是基于2015年的技术，为八代之前的晶片技术；如果进一步收紧限制，只会加速中国自主研发替代设备的步伐。

富凯比喻说：“如果我将你放到沙漠里，告诉你今后再也没有食物来源了——你需要多久才开垦出自己的菜园？这是存亡的问题。”

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美众院加码对华出口管制 分析：对中国半导体产业影响有限
中国半导体业领军人物联名吁：举国之力打造中国版阿斯麦

阿斯麦今年1月预计，公司今年在中国市场的销售额占比为20%，较去年的33%明显减少。按中国海关总署的数据统计，中国今年首季从荷兰进口的光刻设备同比下降24.3%。

中国全国“两会”（人大与政协年会）召开之际，中国半导体行业的九名领军人物集体撰文，呼吁在“十五五”（2026年至2030年）规划期间，举全国之力打造中国版的光刻机巨头阿斯麦，突破美国的技术封锁。

US Supreme Court dismisses dispute over death row inmate’s intellectual disability finding

2026-05-21T14:41:56.977Z / Reuters

The U.S. Supreme Court as justices are expected to issue orders in pending appeals in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 23, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci/File Photo

WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a challenge by Alabama officials to a judicial finding that a death ​row inmate convicted of a 1997 murder is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty.

The justices said ‌that the case had been “improvidently granted” by the court, effectively undoing its earlier decision to take up the matter. The court heard arguments in the dispute in December.

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The court had taken up an appeal by Alabama officials to the lower court’s approach to determining Joseph Clifton Smith’s intellectual capacity, a method that ​had weighed multiple intelligence quotient, or IQ, test scores alongside expert testimony.

Under a 2002 Supreme Court precedent, executing an intellectually ​disabled person violates the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. At issue in ⁠Smith’s case was whether and how courts may consider the cumulative effect of multiple IQ scores in assessing a death row inmate’s ​intellectual disability.

Republican President Donald Trump’s administration backed the state of Alabama in the case.

Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson concurred in ​the Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss the case. Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented. Chief Justice John Roberts and fellow conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch joined Alito’s dissent in part.

Smith, now 55, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of a man named Durk Van Dam in Alabama’s ​Mobile County. Smith fatally beat the man with a hammer and saw in order to steal his boots, tools and $140, according to ​evidence in the case. The victim’s body was found in his mud-bound Ford Ranger truck in an isolated, wooded area.

Like many states, Alabama considers evidence ‌of IQ ⁠test scores of 70 or below as part of the standard for determining intellectual disability. Supreme Court rulings in 2014 and 2017 allowed courts to consider IQ score ranges that are close to 70 along with other evidence of intellectual disability, such as testimony of “adaptive deficits.”

Smith had five IQ test scores, ranging from a high of 78 to a low of 72. A federal judge noted that Smith’s ​lowest score could in fact be ​as low as 69, given ⁠the standard error of measurement, or SEM, of roughly plus or minus three IQ points. The judge then found that Smith had significant deficits from an early age in social and interpersonal skills, independent ​living and academics.

The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the judge’s conclusions in 2023, ​setting aside Smith’s ⁠death sentence. This prompted Alabama officials to file the first of two appeals to the Supreme Court in the case.

The justices in 2024 threw out the 11th Circuit’s decision, saying that the lower court’s evaluation of Smith’s IQ scores could be read two ways, and required clarification.

The 11th ⁠Circuit responded ​with an opinion clarifying that its evaluation was based on “a holistic approach to ​multiple IQ scores” that also considered additional relevant evidence, including expert testimony. This prompted the second appeal by Alabama officials to the Supreme Court.

Reporting by John Kruzel; Editing by Will Dunham

日本博物馆美术馆或采取“双标收费”　外国游客门票较贵

2026年5月21日 23:10 / 联合早报

位于兵库县姬路市的世界文化遗产“姬路城”前不久启动门票双标制，日本居民门票为1000日元（约8新元），游客2500日元，多了一倍半。 （档案照片）

日本国库吃紧，政府因此削减拨给国立博物馆和美术馆的经费。为了弥补财源不足，日本当局计划采用类似于巴黎卢浮宫的双标收费制度，向国内外游客收取不同的入门费。

长久以来，日本的博物馆和美术馆的运营资金主要来自国家拨款。但据日本媒体报道，日本政府制定的新财年计划目标是要在五年内，让这些场馆的门票等自营收入在企划展等展览业务费中的占比提升至65%，并于十年内达到100%，以摆脱政府全额补贴的财务结构。

无法达到自主经营目标的场馆则将面临重组。

财政部一名官员接受日本媒体访问时说：“日本国债已达到创纪录水平，鉴于国家财政状况如此艰难，博物馆及其藏品依赖政府拨款是不可持续的。当局有必要建立一个能够保障场馆有自己收入的体系。”

日本本月初公布的数据显示，截至2026年3月底，日本国债、借款及政府短期证券等政府债务总额已达1343.84万亿日元（约10.81万亿新元），较上财年末增加20.13万亿日元，连续十年创新高。

法政大学教授金山喜昭也指出，日本至今由政府支持博物馆和美术馆是基于社会责任，让人们不分贵贱都可以走入展厅。但是，在财政压力下，让各场馆追求盈利是大势所趋。

络绎不绝的外国游客成了重要的资金来源。2025年全年，访日国际游客再写新高，达4268万人次。日本当局因此提出扩大旅游业收益，并建议向外国游客征收较高的票价。

日本很多地方已在考虑实施双标收费。例如，京都与大阪是旅游“黄金路线”，两大城市的公共交通因旅客涌入而变得更拥挤。为获取更多资金以扩增交通路线，京都市交通局考虑在2027年实施车票双标制。到时，外国游客须付的车票价可能比当地人多一倍。

被列为世界文化遗产的“姬路城”（Himeji）前不久也启动门票双标制，日本居民付1000日元，游客2500日元，多了一倍半。

姬路市长清元秀泰说：“这个票价差能给这个城市带来额外约2.7亿日元的收入，使这个景点的收入比去年增加一倍。”

对于双标收费，日本网民普遍表示支持。面对日元疲软、物价上涨的压力，他们认为对外国游客实行双标收费制是适当的。

Trump administration onboards largest-ever class of new immigration judges in bid to speed up deportation cases

2026-05-21T08:18:00-0400 / CBS News

By Camilo Montoya-Galvez Immigration Correspondent
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The Trump administration this week onboarded more than 80 new federal immigration judges, in its latest push to expedite deportation cases and further its government-wide crackdown on illegal immigration, Justice Department officials said Thursday.

The Justice Department, which oversees the U.S. immigration court system, swore in 77 permanent immigration judges and 5 temporary immigration judges, a group that officials described as the largest class of immigration judges in the department’s history.

The additions come after the ouster of dozens of immigration judges across the country by the Trump administration over the past year. When President Trump took office, the Justice Department had more than 700 immigration judges. By earlier this year, that number had dipped below 600. Justice Department officials said the new class would bring the immigration judge corps back closer to 700 members.

Immigration judges decide whether noncitizens the government is seeking to deport should be removed from the U.S. or allowed to stay. Despite their title, immigration judges are not part of the independent judicial branch and are instead employees of the Justice Department, which runs dozens of immigration courts across the U.S., as well as an appellate immigration court.

While they’re part of the executive branch, immigration judges are expected to be neutral, and not show bias towards noncitizens or the Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyers seeking their deportation. Still, the Trump administration has publicly referred to them as “deportation judges” in official job listings, calling on potential applicants in one ad to “deliver justice” to “criminal illegal aliens.”

As part of its mass deportation campaign, Mr. Trump’s administration has sought to overhaul the country’s immigration courts, since, in many cases, immigrants have to be issued removal orders before being deported.

That overhaul has included a purge of more than 100 immigration judges, including many appointed under the Biden administration. Some of the judges ousted under the Trump administration have said they believe they were fired over not sufficiently pushing deportations or having backgrounds helping or advocating for immigrants.

Over the past year, the Justice Department has also issued directives and precedent-setting orders sharply restricting when immigration judges can grant asylum or other forms of relief to those facing deportation, and when they can release those in ICE detention on bond.

The new class of immigration judges was sworn in on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Justice Department officials said.

Most of the immigration judges joining the Justice Department’s ranks this week had previously worked as ICE lawyers, prosecutors or in the military, as officers, judge advocates or other roles, according to bios provided by the department. Some worked as state or local judges, or as lawyers in private practice.

Justice Department officials said the administration has hired 153 permanent immigration judges in fiscal year 2026, which began in October 2025.

In a statement Thursday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Trump administration is “committed to reestablishing an immigration judge corps that is dedicated to restoring the rule to the law in our nation’s immigration system.”

“This could only happen thanks to President Trump’s decisive leadership and commitment to securing our borders,” Blanche said.

Greg Chen, senior director for government relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, accused the Trump administration of seeking to “compel” immigration judges to “act as tools of enforcement, not impartial adjudicators.”

Chen said the “deportation judge” job listings show immigration courts “are not fair or independent in the way we expect them to be but are completely controlled by a President who has stripped them of power and is using them to execute his mass deportation campaign.”

Over the past years, the number of immigration court cases has ballooned, fueled by a surge in asylum requests by those crossing the southern border illegally. The backlog of millions of cases has crippled the government’s ability to decide many cases in a timely manner, leading to years-long waits for decisions.

On Thursday, Justice Department officials said they had reduced the backlog of pending immigration court cases from 4 million to around 3.5 million since January 2025.

Read the Democrats’ 2024 campaign autopsy

2026-05-21T14:43:08.046Z / The Washington Post

The report’s release followed months of pressure from some Democrats, who were frustrated that the party did not plan to release it publicly.

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Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Charlotte on Election Day in 2024. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)

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The Democratic National Committee released a long-awaited autopsy Thursday of the party’s failed 2024 presidential campaign. The move came after months of pressure from some Democrats, who were frustrated that the party did not plan to release it publicly.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/21/read-democrats-2024-campaign-autopsy/

Divided Supreme Court decision bars Alabama from executing an inmate who may be intellectually disabled

2026-05-21T14:27:52.839Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/politics/hamm-v-smith-supreme-court-decision

The Supreme Court on Thursday let stand an appeals court decision that barred Alabama from executing a man that lower courts found is likely intellectually disabled.

The Supreme Court, in an unsigned opinion, took the unusual step of dismissing an appeal, filed by Alabama, after it heard arguments in the case. A lower court decision barring the execution of Joseph Clifton Smith will stand, and the Supreme Court will save for another day the questions about intellectual disability that the appeal raised.

Four justices dissented from the decision: Chief Justice John Roberts as well as Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch.

Smith was convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal murder in 1997 of Durk Van Dam in Mobile County. But Smith’s attorneys argued he was ineligible for the death penalty under a 2002 Supreme Court precedent that determined the execution of intellectually disabled inmates violates the 8th Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

A series of tests put Smith’s IQ at just over 70, a threshold referenced in the Supreme Court’s 2002 decision. But the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals noted that the number isn’t a strict cutoff and that the error deviation in the testing could potentially put Smith’s actual IQ slightly below 70. The question for the Supreme Court was how lower courts are supposed to determine if an inmate is intellectually disabled in edge cases when there are multiple IQ tests.

By dismissing the case as “improvidently granted,” the court effectively said that now is not the right time to answer that question.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s senior liberal, wrote in a concurring opinion that lower courts correctly decided that Smith was intellectually disabled and barred from execution under previous Supreme Court precedent. But, she wrote, the court was “not equipped” to provide “any meaningful guidance” based on the Smith case.

“That is because the differences between methods used to assess multiple IQ scores raise complicated questions on which even experts may disagree,” she wrote.

Sotomayor, who was joined by liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, acknowledged that in the future, the high court may need to weigh in “with more specific guidance” about how lower courts should analyze death row cases involving multiple IQ scores that suggest a prisoner is on the cusp of a state’s definition of intellectually disabled.

The decision to not decide drew a sharp rebuke from several members of the court’s conservative wing.

“To avoid execution, Smith tried to convince courts that he is not intelligent enough to be executed,” Thomas wrote. “Today, the Court rewards Smith’s efforts.”

“Smith is not insufficiently intelligent to be executed,” Thomas wrote, adding that he believed the court should overturn a 2002 precedent barring the execution of people who intellectually disabled, which he said has “bred only confusion and absurdity.”

Given that four justices publicly dissented, it was clear that conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett as well as the court’s liberals, had agreed to dismiss the case.

The dismissed case “is a bit surprising given that six of the justices wrote or joined lengthy opinions setting forth their views on the merits,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown University Law Center. “It certainly appears that Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett were willing to side with the death-row prisoner here, but preferred to do so by issuing this summary, procedural disposition, rather than joining Justice Sotomayor’s concurrence. It’s not unusual to see such punts without 63 pages of opinions on both sides; it’s more than a little unusual with it.”

The court’s decision will influence where other states draw the eligibility line for death sentences. The Trump administration, which is pushing to restart federal executions, sided with Alabama.

Smith confessed to murdering Van Dam, but offered conflicting versions of the crime, according to court records. The state told the Supreme Court that Smith “brutally beat” Van Dam with a hammer and saw “in order to steal $140, the man’s boots, and some tools.”

Lower courts reviewed several factors, in addition to the IQ tests, and concluded that Smith is intellectually disabled. Smith had struggled in school since as early as the first grade, the 11th Circuit found, which led to his teacher labeling him as an “underachiever.” When he was in fourth grade, Smith was placed in a learning-disability class.

Smith then failed the seventh and eighth grades before dropping out of school, according to court records, and spent “much of the next fifteen years in prison” for burglary and receiving stolen property.

Smith’s case previously reached the Supreme Court in 2023 when Alabama asked the justices to overturn the 11th Circuit’s decision in his favor. After considering the case for months, the justices summarily tossed out the 11th Circuit decision and ordered that court to review the case again.

The appeals court came to the same conclusion after further review and Alabama appealed to the Supreme Court again last year.

This story has been updated with additional details.

日本博物馆美术馆或采取“双标收费”　外国游客门票较贵

2026年5月21日 23:10 / 联合早报

位于兵库县姬路市的世界文化遗产“姬路城”前不久启动门票双标制，日本居民门票为1000日元（约8新元），游客2500日元，多了一倍半。 （档案照片）

日本国库吃紧，政府因此削减拨给国立博物馆和美术馆的经费。为了弥补财源不足，日本当局计划采用类似于巴黎卢浮宫的双标收费制度，向国内外游客收取不同的入门费。

长久以来，日本的博物馆和美术馆的运营资金主要来自国家拨款。但据日本媒体报道，日本政府制定的新财年计划目标是要在五年内，让这些场馆的门票等自营收入在企划展等展览业务费中的占比提升至65%，并于十年内达到100%，以摆脱政府全额补贴的财务结构。

无法达到自主经营目标的场馆则将面临重组。

财政部一名官员接受日本媒体访问时说：“日本国债已达到创纪录水平，鉴于国家财政状况如此艰难，博物馆及其藏品依赖政府拨款是不可持续的。当局有必要建立一个能够保障场馆有自己收入的体系。”

日本本月初公布的数据显示，截至2026年3月底，日本国债、借款及政府短期证券等政府债务总额已达1343.84万亿日元（约10.81万亿新元），较上财年末增加20.13万亿日元，连续十年创新高。

法政大学教授金山喜昭也指出，日本至今由政府支持博物馆和美术馆是基于社会责任，让人们不分贵贱都可以走入展厅。但是，在财政压力下，让各场馆追求盈利是大势所趋。

络绎不绝的外国游客成了重要的资金来源。2025年全年，访日国际游客再写新高，达4268万人次。日本当局因此提出扩大旅游业收益，并建议向外国游客征收较高的票价。

日本很多地方已在考虑实施双标收费。例如，京都与大阪是旅游“黄金路线”，两大城市的公共交通因旅客涌入而变得更拥挤。为获取更多资金以扩增交通路线，京都市交通局考虑在2027年实施车票双标制。到时，外国游客须付的车票价可能比当地人多一倍。

被列为世界文化遗产的“姬路城”（Himeji）前不久也启动门票双标制，日本居民付1000日元，游客2500日元，多了一倍半。

姬路市长清元秀泰说：“这个票价差能给这个城市带来额外约2.7亿日元的收入，使这个景点的收入比去年增加一倍。”

对于双标收费，日本网民普遍表示支持。面对日元疲软、物价上涨的压力，他们认为对外国游客实行双标收费制是适当的。

欧洲联盟今年经济增长预料将放缓，图为法国首都巴黎一条购物街。 （法新社）

经济展望报告显示，受中东冲突引发的能源冲击影响，欧洲联盟今年经济增长将放缓，通胀将上升。

根据星期四（5月21日）发布的2026年春季经济展望报告，欧盟实际国内生产总值（GDP）增速将放缓至1.1%，较去年秋季预测下调0.3个百分点，2027年将回升至1.4%。欧元区2026年和2027年经济增长预计分别为0.9%和1.2%。

新华社引述报告说，尽管能源驱动的通货膨胀预计在2027年有所缓解，但能源大宗商品价格预计仍将比此次中东冲突前水平高约20%。欧盟2026年通胀率预计将达3.1%，较此前秋季预测高出一个百分点，2027年将回落至2.4%。欧元区2026年和2027年通胀率预计分别为3.0%和2.3%。

此外，受经济活动疲软、利息支出上升、能源补贴措施以及防务支出增加等因素影响，欧盟财政赤字率预计将从2025年的3.1%升至2027年的3.6%。

报告还显示，德国2026年经济增长预期由此前的1.2%大幅下调至0.6%，预计2027年德国经济增长仅为0.9%。美国关税政策、能源价格高企以及地缘政治风险将持续拖累德国经济复苏。