A new package of measures for the school system has been announced by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, which is expected to be submitted soon to the Council of Ministers for approval.
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The proposals include setting a mandatory legal limit on the number of students of foreign origin in each class, the requirement that parents of such students with serious integration difficulties learn the Italian language, as well as the ban on the use of burqa and hijab inside school premises.
Meloni explained that the measure to be presented to the Council of Ministers aims to set a legal ceiling on foreign children in each class, require their parents with significant integration barriers to master Italian, and ban clothing such as the burqa and hijab in schools.
According to her, these measures aim to address integration problems and establish uniform rules throughout the education system.
Speaking about the ban on burqa and hijab, the prime minister stressed that female students in Italian schools must appear with their faces uncovered.
She added that in Italy no one, in the name of any real or supposed tradition, can force a girl to hide, and that equality between men and women is not negotiable either in public spaces or in schools.
Furthermore, Meloni also spoke about the use of artificial intelligence and its potential impact during the upcoming election campaigns.
She stated that algorithms can slander you but cannot overwrite you, warning that in the pre-election period the circulation of manipulated or fake content may increase.
The prime minister called on citizens to be vigilant about the information that will appear in the coming months, emphasizing that they should not automatically accept as true everything they see during this period.
Meloni also dismissed claims that the government had blocked a bipartisan proposal for a moratorium on the use of social media by minors.
She clarified that it is not true, as some on the left claim, that they blocked that proposal; on the contrary, they avoided interfering in government initiatives precisely because Parliament was discussing it.
According to her, the protection of minors cannot be left solely to families, and platforms must assume the greater part of the responsibility, as they have the means to remove many of the mechanisms that create addiction among young people.
Meloni also raised the issue of age verification for social media users, seeking a solution that does not force users to present identification documents.
According to her, such a system could lead to the broadest profiling of citizens ever imagined.
