Germany could impose a ban on women wearing burkas or full-face veils at schools and universities and while driving, under proposals announced by Chancellor Angela Merkel's party.The burka "does not belong in our cosmopolitan country", Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said as he announced the policy this week. "We all reject the full veil - not only the burka but also other types of full veil that only leave the eyes visible. They have no place in our society."The proposals stop short of the complete ban called for by senior figures in Merkel's Christian Democrat party. Instead what has been described as a "burka ban lite" will also apply to women working as public officials, attending public demonstrations, and in court.Merkel made her own feelings clear in an interview with a number of newspapers. "A fully veiled woman has almost no chance of integrating successfully in German society," she said.But Andrea Nahles, the employment and social affairs minister, described the proposed ban as a sign of "increasingly xenophobic" debate...