Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has announced that the government is preparing two bills: one to ban face-covering veils in schools and another to limit the number of foreign students allowed in a single classroom, Politico reports.
Speaking at Fenix, the annual event held by the youth wing of her party, Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia), she stated that Italian children must not feel like a minority in their own classrooms. The Prime Minister added that if the number of children who do not understand the language of instruction becomes high—or if such students form a majority in the class—it ceases to be integration and instead becomes a case of neglecting Italian children.
According to data from the research institute Fondazione ISMU, there are currently approximately 930,000 students from other countries in Italian schools, representing nearly 11.6% of the total student population.
However, the number of foreign students has dropped by 4.5% over the last decade.
Meloni did not provide further details on how the limit on foreign students would be implemented. The Prime Minister came to power with the support of voters concerned about immigration issues, and she has made these issues central pillars of her campaign. This is not the first time Meloni’s government has discussed a ban on face coverings. In 2025, her party announced plans to ban the use of the burqa and niqab in all public places in Italy, describing the proposal as a response to Islamic separatism. The bill is still under discussion in the lower house of parliament.
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