Italy’s Meloni plans to ban burkas, niqabs in schools and cap foreign pupils in classrooms

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday she will soon introduce a measure to her government that would cap the number of foreign pupils in classrooms and ban the wearing of burkas and niqabs in schools.

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 pupils having “serious difficulties integrating into the school system”.

“For us, anyone who comes to Italy...