På samma sätt som Belgien och Frankrike har begränsat religiösa symboler i offentliga rum föreslår Charlie Weimers (SD) att det ska vara otillåtet att bära slöja i Europaparlamentet.
Förslaget har väckt internationell uppmärksamhet. Politico skriver under rubriken, Conservative MEP launches petition to ban Islamic headscarves in European Parliament: “Charlie Weimers, head of the Sweden Democrats delegation within the European Conservatives and Reformists group, asked his colleagues to sign a petition to ban wearing “the hijab, niqab, or other Islamic headscarves by civil servants employed by EU institutions, as well as by external service providers contracted to work on EU premises.”
