In Italy, an appearance by author Antonio Scurati on the public broadcaster RAI has been cancelled at short notice. Scurati was due to read a text on the anniversary of Italy's liberation from fascism on 25 April in which he accuses Giorgia Meloni of failing to distance herself from her "post-fascist past". Commentators see the incident as symptomatic of deeper problems.
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