{"id":299488,"date":"2026-09-21T14:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=299488"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:16:40","slug":"italy-seeks-to-ban-burqas-in-schools-and-limit-number-of-foreign-students-per-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/299488\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy seeks to ban burqas in schools and limit number of foreign students per class"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that the government will soon submit measures to the Council of Ministers to limit the number of foreign students in a single classroom and ban the wearing of Islamic niqabs and burqas in schools.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Council of Ministers will soon consider a decree that will legally establish a maximum number of foreign students per class&hellip; and also ban the burqa and niqab in schools,&rdquo; Meloni stated.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is unacceptable for Italian children to feel sidelined in an Italian classroom because they have become a minority. That should not happen,&rdquo; the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>She also stated that parents of foreign students struggling with integration would be required to learn Italian.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed rules, a 30% cap on foreign students per class is envisaged. However, these restrictions would not apply to citizens of other EU countries, who&mdash;in accordance with European Union regulations&mdash;are treated on an equal footing with Italian students.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that the government will soon submit measures to the Council of Ministers to limit the number of foreign students in a single classroom and ban the wearing of Islamic niqabs and burqas in schools. &ldquo;The Council of Ministers will soon consider a decree that will legally establish a maximum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299489,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299488\/revisions\/299489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}