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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170208-130432 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-anti-mosques-law-of-lombardy-and-religious-freedom-in-italy/ The “Anti-Mosques” Law of Lombardy and Religious Freedom in Italy Anello, Giancarlo ger 2015-02-24 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Lombardy, Italy’s most populous region, has just enacted a law that seems to be designed to make life for Muslims as hard as possible. On January 27th, the Council of the Lombardy Region has enacted amendments to the Regional Law that regulates the planning of buildings and other structures for religious purposes. These amendments make it extremely cumbersome to build new places of worship for all non-established religious denominations, particularly Muslims – while the still dominant Catholic Church remains exempted from the regulation. Discrimination is not the only aspect of the new law that makes its constitutionality look more than questionable.