“To participate in the exhibition for small and medium-sized publishers Più Libri Più Liberi [‘Plus de livres, plus de liberté']which will be held in Rome [du 4 au 8 décembre]publishing houses will have to this year obtain a ‘anti-fascist certificate’ by signing a declaration to this effect. This is how the left understands freedom of thought: you are free, but only if you say what they authorize you to say. The suppression of non-leftist ideas, disguised as anti-fascist struggle, is an old vice of the left. […] It’s called, quite simply, censorship.â€
It is with these comments published on X and relayed by the Corriere della Sera that the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, decided to stir up controversy. On Sunday June 14, the nationalist Prime Minister sounded the charge against the Più Libri Più Liberi literary fair, which during this 2026 edition decided to introduce a controversial novelty. “Starting this year, publishers will have to sign a document where they declare ‘recognize and share the anti-fascist values which are the basis of the democratic order of the Italian Constitution’†, reports the Milanese media.
A scandalous request in the eyes of certain observers, such as the right-wing daily The newspaper, depending on who it is “superfluous†, in the measure
