Under the ban, officials will also be able to require women wearing a burka or full-face veil to uncover their faces for the purposes of identification.
The new law falls short of calls from the Right in Germany for a French-style blanket ban on the burka in public places.
It also stops short of Angela Merkel’s call for a ban “wherever legally possible”.
The new legislation is mainly directed at public officials, and does not affect the right of private individuals to wear the burka in public. Read on and comment » | Justin Huggler in Berlin | Friday, April 28, 2017
