Meloni's speech at the Gioventù nazionale festival dominated the day: she announced a forthcoming cabinet measure capping foreign pupils per class and banning the burqa in schools, saying Italian children must not feel like a minority. Il Fatto Quotidiano and Libero read it as a move to chase Vannacci, Il Giornale turned it against the left and Tajani.
At Pontida, Salvini declared the League more united than ever, proposed an extraordinary congress in October against northern rebels, and attacked Repubblica, while Giorgetti said the League's enemies are outside it.
International pages tracked the largest Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow, with over 1,100 drones reported and two dead, Trump cutting short Camp David amid US alerts of Middle East escalation, and German exit polls showing AfD first in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Die Linke winning Berlin, with Merz calling the CDU rout a disaster but refusing to resign.
Sport: Fiorentina-Napoli 1-1, Frosinone beat Como 2-0, Acosta won the Austrian MotoGP.