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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced plans to limit the number of foreign students per classroom and ban burqas and niqabs in schools during a youth event hosted by her party. She stated that classrooms with a high proportion of non-Italian speaking students hinder integration, emphasizing that Italian children should not feel like minorities in their classes. Meloni also stressed that no one can hide behind traditional arguments to require women to cover their faces, asserting that this measure aligns with national identity and cultural norms. According to Fondazione ISMU, foreign students account for 11.6% of total school enrollment in Italy. However, the specific cap on foreign students per class remains unspecified.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-20,
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Story summary
Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy, announced on September 24 at a youth event organized by her right-wing Brothers of Italy party in Rome, plans to ban face coverings like burqas and niqabs in schools. She also proposed capping the number of foreign students per class, requiring parents of foreign students facing integration difficulties to learn Italian, and making it mandatory for students to attend school with their faces uncovered. Meloni emphasized that immigrants must learn Italian, understand Italian culture, and respect Italian rules if they want a future in Italy. This move is part of efforts to address the contentious issue of migrant integration amid high levels of immigration to Italy, due to its location in the central Mediterranean. The proposed measures need Cabinet approval before being presented to parliament for final passage within 60 days.
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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.
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"A measure will soon be presented to a Cabinet meeting to legally establish a maximum number of foreign students per class.
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measure → present → class
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.
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Meloni → require → schools
"If there is only one child in a class who doesn't understand Italian, that child will likely be able to learn the language and integrate quickly with the help of classmates and teachers.
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child → be → classmates
However, if the number of children who don't understand the language becomes large - or even the majority - that is no longer integration; it is neglect," she added.
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She further said that Italian children should not feel like a minority in the classroom.
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The Italian PM said students must attend school with their faces uncovered, and that in Italy, no one can decide ,“ in the name of a real or supposed tradition”, that a young woman must hide herself.
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woman → say → herself
Italy's position in the central Mediterranean places it among the European nations most exposed to migrant arrivals, making immigration a highly sensitive issue and a persistent challenge for the governments that have followed one another.
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The integration of migrants, especially those coming from Muslim-majority countries, continues to be a divisive topic within Italian politics and society, with disputes over religious symbols, cultural assimilation, citizenship regulations and immigration policy regularly dividing public opinion.
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According to Fondazione ISMU, a research institution cited by Reuters, students who do not hold Italian citizenship make up 11.6 per cent of total school enrollment in Italy, roughly 12 out of every 100 students.
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Meloni, however, did not specify what the specific cap on foreign students per class would be.
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