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- Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced a school ban on burqas and niqabs and a cap on foreign pupils per class.
- The plan requires parents of foreign pupils with integration problems to attend compulsory Italian language lessons.
- Approximately 930,000 non-Italian students, about 11.6% of enrolment, currently attend Italian schools.
- Italy already has a 30% legal cap on foreign pupils per class, often unenforced.
- Green MP Angelo Bonelli condemned the plan, while Reform UK leader Nigel Farage praised it.
