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Portugal has become the latest European country to ban face-coverings in public, enacting a law that campaigners say violates the rights of Muslim women.
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Key FactsItaly Proposes Ban on Full-Face Veils and Mosque Funding
Oct 8, 2025 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: politico.eu
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: politico.eu
- The ruling Brothers of Italy party plans to prohibit burqas and niqabs in all public spaces nationwide.
- Fines ranging from €300 to €3,000 are proposed for noncompliance, reflecting measures first adopted by France in 2011.
- The legislation also includes harsher penalties for forced marriages and mandates disclosure of foreign funding for unrecognized religious groups.
- This bill aims to counteract cultural separatism and safeguard Italy’s constitutional values and sovereignty.
Religious freedom is sacred, but it must be exercised in the open, in full respect of our constitution and the principles of the Italian state.— Andrea Delmastro, a lawmaker and one of the initiators of the planned bill, in a Facebook post.
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