Italy to ban veils in schools, limit foreign students per class, Meloni says
Meloni said the plan would also require Italian lessons for some parents, as foreign students make up 11.6% of school enrollment, ISTAT said.
- On Sunday, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced plans to ban face coverings in schools and cap the number of foreign students per class during a youth event organized by her Brothers party.
- Italy remains exposed to Mediterranean migrant arrivals, making migration a persistent challenge for successive governments. Meloni used the platform to emphasize her right-wing credentials on immigration policy.
- Non-Italian citizens currently account for 11.6% of enrollment in Italian schools, or nearly 12 in every 100 students, according to research institution Fondazione ISMU.
- The proposed legislation requires parents of foreign students struggling to integrate to learn Italian. "In Italy no one, in the name of a real or supposed tradition, can decide that a young woman must hide herself," Meloni said.
- Debates over religious symbols and cultural integration frequently polarize Italian society. Meloni argued that high concentrations of non-Italian speakers in classrooms constitute "neglect" rather than integration, justifying the Cabinet measure.
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Giorgia Meloni now intends to carry the battle of integration into the classrooms. In front of the young people of Fratelli d的Italia, meeting Sunday, 20 September, the President of the Council announced the forthcoming presentation of a text intended to prohibit the complete veil in the school. The measure would concern the burqa, which completely conceals the face, as well as the niqab, which only reveals the eyes. "A measure will soon be prese…
The Italian Government is preparing to introduce a new package of laws designed to regulate integration into schools, including a ban on whistleblowers, a maximum number of foreign students in class, and the obligation of some foreign parents to learn Italian.
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First were the media, purged and molded at the stroke of official slogans; then the turn came to the culture, and now the identity trench is moving into the classrooms. The last ordago of the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, is ready to reach the Council of Ministers, as she has announced herself: a new package of measures to ban by law the burka and niqab integral veil in schools and set a strict ceiling on the number of foreign student…
Rome, September 21 - It is enough to propose a limit on the concentration of foreign students in classes so that the final words return immediately from the centre-left. ... The article Shelter for foreigners at school: the problem that Meloni admits without wanting to face it comes from The National Primacy.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that she would push for legislation to ban face-covering attire, such as burkas and niqabs, in schools and to cap the number of foreign students per class. This move is interpreted as an attempt to rally right-wing supporters by placing immigration issues at the forefront ahead of next year's general election. On the 20th, Prime Minister Meloni...
In Italy, it is planned to prohibit the wearing of closed clothes in schools and to limit the proportion of foreign pupils in the same class, as announced by the Prime Minister of the country, George Meloni.
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