Angela Merkel endorses party’s call for partial ban on burqa and niqab

German chancellor tells CDU conference ‘full facial veil is inappropriate and should be banned wherever it is legally possible’

• The Guardian
• Philip Oltermann

Angela Merkel has for the first time endorsed her party’s call for a partial ban on the burqa and the niqab in Germany, telling delegates at the Christian Democratic Union’s conference in Essen “the full facial veil is inappropriate and should be banned wherever it is legally possible”.

The German chancellor’s CDU party is expected this week to…

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