https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Florence's 30,000-strong Muslim community will soon have a new place of worship, the city's mayor promised on Tuesday evening. https://www.thelocal.it/20170315/florence-mayor-meeting-muslim-community-islamic-veil-ban-mosques Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:34:20 +0100 florence-mayor-meeting-muslim-community-islamic-veil-ban-mosques A woman who wore a niqab in her local town hall has been issued a €30,000 fine, according to local media reports. https://www.thelocal.it/20161111/woman-fined-30000-for-wearing-niqab-in-italy-town-hall Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:50:39 +0100 woman-fined-30000-for-wearing-niqab-in-italy-town-hall An appeals court in Milan has ruled that a company discriminated against an Italian woman of Egyptian origin when it refused to hire her because she wouldn’t take off her Islamic headscarf. https://www.thelocal.it/20160506/italian-firm-was-wrong-to-refuse-to-hire-hijab-wearing Fri, 06 May 2016 11:29:47 +0200 italian-firm-was-wrong-to-refuse-to-hire-hijab-wearing The headmaster of a college in Italy's Friuli-Venezia Giulia region has banned female Muslim students from wearing headscarves. https://www.thelocal.it/20150217/italian-college-bans-muslim-headscarves Tue, 17 Feb 2015 08:11:00 +0100 italian-college-bans-muslim-headscarves Staff at a hotel in central Italy have refused to let a tourism student do an internship with them, because she refused to take off her Islamic veil. https://www.thelocal.it/20140428/intern-barred-from-hotel-over-headscarf Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:48:00 +0200 intern-barred-from-hotel-over-headscarf