The Italian Government of the far-right Giorgia Meloni approved this Thursday through a decree two school measures that it announced on Sunday at a rally: placing a 30% limit on foreign students in classrooms and banning the burqa and niqab in schools, under a fine of 200 to 1,000 euros, although in the first initiative it has had to back down from its initial intentions. Finally, after numerous criticisms, both political and due to implementation difficulties, the limit will only affect children who do not speak Italian. That is, it has been reduced to a linguistic criterion, not a passport criterion. What's more, it will also affect children from other EU countries.
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