No current need for extra security at schools, Giannini says

(ANSA) - Rome, November 25 - Current circumstances in Italy don't warrant putting extra security measures in place at the nation's schools, said Italy's Education Minister Stefania Giannini on Wednesday.
    "As of now there are no grounds for the Italian government to take exceptional measures in terms of material and individual safety, school by school," Giannini said, adding that conditions in Belgium and France, where measures have been taken, are different to those in Italy.
    "In our case security takes place on other fronts, (Renzi) gave a very clear message. Security and education are two tools that go side by side. That of education and culture, from our point of view, is more powerful". Giannini said Italy brought a "precise proposal to structure a common curriculum at the European level that would have as its theme education on European citizenship" to the EU Council of Education Ministers.