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MICHAEL HEAVER
https://youtu.be/T9Sb7IU2Rv8
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Well, an announcement from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sending shockwaves right across Europe. And you have to remember right now, you're seeing a big shift across Europe.
[...] she has now made this major announcement that Italy is going to ban face coverings in schools. She says it will require parents of foreign students -- facing serious difficulties integrating into the school system -- to learn Italian. And there will be a ban burqas and niqabs in schools.
They're going to cap the number of foreign students per class. You can see the quote from Meloni that a measure will soon be presented to a cabinet meeting to legally establish a maximum number of foreign students per class.
Also saying there that if there is only one child in a class who doesn't speak Italian, that child will likely be able to learn the language and integrate quickly with the help of classmates and teachers. However, if the number of children who don't understand the language becomes large or even the majority, that is no longer integration. It is neglect.
And Meloni making the point you must go to school with your face uncovered. And that in Italy, no one in the name of a real or supposed tradition can decide that a young woman must hide herself.
Italian bans announced ... https://youtu.be/T9Sb7IU2Rv8
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/T9Sb7IU2Rv8
Germany's far-right AfD celebrates another state election win
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20...ection-win
INTRO: Cheering and clapping, Germany's far-right AfD celebrated another regional election win Sunday as exit polls placed it narrowly ahead in a Baltic Sea coastal state in the formerly communist east.
"We are the strongest force and have reached the mainstream of the population," said jubilant AfD co-leader Alice Weidel after the first results came in for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state.
"We have displaced the CDU as the people's party," she later added, referring to the centre-right party of embattled Chancellor Friedrich Merz that was hovering around a historic low of five percent in the region.
The AfD scored more than 37 percent against about 35 for the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) of state premier Manuela Schwesig, who had hoped for a last-minute comeback after recently closing the gap with the anti-immigration AfD.
Schwesig nevertheless looked likely to remain in office as a three-way coalition of her SPD with two other left-wing parties -- the Greens and the hard-left Die Linke -- appeared headed for a majority. The other national AfD boss, Tino Chrupalla, described his party's success -- which came two weeks after an AfD triumph in Saxony-Anhalt state -- as a "sensational result", adding that "we clearly have a mandate to govern".
The AfD's hopeful for state premier, former radio host Leif-Erik Holm, 56, immediately claimed that mandate. "We will, of course, invite all parties," he said at the AfD's election party in the state capital Schwerin.
But he also acknowledged that "it's difficult to form a government" as none of the other major parties are willing to form a coalition with the AfD. (MORE - details)
https://youtu.be/T9Sb7IU2Rv8
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Well, an announcement from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sending shockwaves right across Europe. And you have to remember right now, you're seeing a big shift across Europe.
[...] she has now made this major announcement that Italy is going to ban face coverings in schools. She says it will require parents of foreign students -- facing serious difficulties integrating into the school system -- to learn Italian. And there will be a ban burqas and niqabs in schools.
They're going to cap the number of foreign students per class. You can see the quote from Meloni that a measure will soon be presented to a cabinet meeting to legally establish a maximum number of foreign students per class.
Also saying there that if there is only one child in a class who doesn't speak Italian, that child will likely be able to learn the language and integrate quickly with the help of classmates and teachers. However, if the number of children who don't understand the language becomes large or even the majority, that is no longer integration. It is neglect.
And Meloni making the point you must go to school with your face uncovered. And that in Italy, no one in the name of a real or supposed tradition can decide that a young woman must hide herself.
Italian bans announced ... https://youtu.be/T9Sb7IU2Rv8
Germany's far-right AfD celebrates another state election win
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20...ection-win
INTRO: Cheering and clapping, Germany's far-right AfD celebrated another regional election win Sunday as exit polls placed it narrowly ahead in a Baltic Sea coastal state in the formerly communist east.
"We are the strongest force and have reached the mainstream of the population," said jubilant AfD co-leader Alice Weidel after the first results came in for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state.
"We have displaced the CDU as the people's party," she later added, referring to the centre-right party of embattled Chancellor Friedrich Merz that was hovering around a historic low of five percent in the region.
The AfD scored more than 37 percent against about 35 for the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) of state premier Manuela Schwesig, who had hoped for a last-minute comeback after recently closing the gap with the anti-immigration AfD.
Schwesig nevertheless looked likely to remain in office as a three-way coalition of her SPD with two other left-wing parties -- the Greens and the hard-left Die Linke -- appeared headed for a majority. The other national AfD boss, Tino Chrupalla, described his party's success -- which came two weeks after an AfD triumph in Saxony-Anhalt state -- as a "sensational result", adding that "we clearly have a mandate to govern".
The AfD's hopeful for state premier, former radio host Leif-Erik Holm, 56, immediately claimed that mandate. "We will, of course, invite all parties," he said at the AfD's election party in the state capital Schwerin.
But he also acknowledged that "it's difficult to form a government" as none of the other major parties are willing to form a coalition with the AfD. (MORE - details)
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