Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on Sunday that she will soon propose new government measures aimed at education. The measures will include a cap on the number of foreign students allowed in classrooms and a ban on the wearing of burqas and niqabs in schools. These initiatives reflect Meloni’s ongoing focus on national identity and integration within the educational system.
Meloni told the youth wing of her nationalist conservative Brothers of Italy party that the measure would also make Italian language lessons compulsory for parents of foreign students having “serious difficulties integrating into the school system.”
Earlier reporting noted: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on Sunday that Italy will ban face coverings including burqa and hijab in schools and impose a limit on the number of foreign students allowed per classroom, speaking at a youth event hosted by her Brothers of Italy party. “It is the only serious way to welcome them. Meloni, who has political roots in the far-right, has consistently been hawkish on migration. But she has evolved politically over her tenure as prime minister, shifting from a nationalist outlier to an establishment figure among European Union politicians.
Once approved by the government, the measure would need parliamentary approval within 60 days to pass into law.
“For us, anyone who comes to Italy and wants to build their future here must learn our language, understand our culture, and respect our rules,” she said to a standing ovation at the Gioventu Nazionale national festival in Rome. It also requires parents of foreign students facing serious difficulties integrating into the school system to learn Italian and bans burqas and niqabs in schools,” Meloni said. Earlier reporting noted: She further said that Italian children should not feel like a minority in the classroom.
Earlier this month, Meloni’s conservative administration became Italy’s longest-serving uninterrupted government since World War II. Earlier reporting noted: “A measure will soon be presented to a Cabinet meeting to legally establish a maximum number of foreign students per class.
