Italy plans foreign student limits, burqa-hijab ban

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Italy is preparing a measure that would introduce a legal limit on the number of foreign students in schools and ban the burqa and hijab there, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said. “Italian children cannot feel like a minority in the classroom,” Meloni said at Fenix, a national youth festival organised by her Brothers of Italy (FdI) party’s youth group. “It’s unthinkable