In Rome, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has proposed banning full-face veils in schools and capping foreign student enrollment, framing these measures as conditions for genuine integration rather than exclusion. The announcement, made to her party's youth wing, arrives as her Brothers of Italy faces a rightward electoral challenge from the surging National Future party ahead of 2027 general elections. It is a familiar tension in democratic life — a governing party defending its ideological territory not from the opposition, but from those who claim to hold the same values more purely.