# Meloni accused of shifting right after ‘shameful’ cap on foreign children in classrooms

https://mins.news/en/item/73864

- The Guardian, 2026-09-25 11:31 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/25/giorgia-meloni-italy-foreign-children-schools

> Rights campaigners accuse Giorgia Meloni’s Italian government of courting far-right voters before next year’s election by limiting classrooms to 30% of newly arrived pupils who lack adequate Italian and banning burqas and niqabs in schools. The government calls the measures commonsense integration tools; they are due to begin in the 2027-28 school year.

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