Monday, September 21, 2026 - Italy is preparing to ban face coverings in schools and to cap the number of foreign students per class.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this on Sunday,
September 20, at a youth event organised by her party.
Meloni said a package of measures will soon go before the
Italian cabinet, including a ban on burqas and niqabs in schools, a requirement
for parents of pupils facing “serious difficulties integrating” into the
national school system to learn Italian, and a limit on places for foreign
pupils.
“It is unacceptable that in an Italian classroom the
children who end up feeling pushed into a corner are Italian children because
they have become the minority. That cannot be allowed,” Meloni said during a
rally organised by Gioventù Nazionale, the youth wing of her Brothers of Italy
party.
“Calling all this integration is yet another lie, a
convenient lie for those who live off ideology, for those who preach to us from
their living rooms and then send their own children to schools where this
problem does not exist.”
Several European countries, including France and Belgium,
already ban face coverings in public places. Austria has also introduced
restrictions in schools. Elsewhere, including Spain and Poland, freedom of
conscience and religion is protected by the constitution.
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