Overview

• The Ministry of Education has launched a formal inquiry and contacted the Associazione Italiana Editori to assess potential ideological bias in the history textbook.
• Fratelli d’Italia deputy Augusta Montaruli filed a complaint accusing the book of containing false and ideologically driven content and urged immediate corrective measures.
• Authored by Carlo Greppi, Caterina Ciccopiedi and Valentina Colombi, the volume labels Meloni’s security and migration policies as “liberticide” and describes plans of mass deportation.
• The contested textbook is currently adopted in high schools across Turin, Rome, Milan and Naples, underscoring the dispute’s national scope.
• This inquiry echoes an earlier controversy over an English textbook critical of Matteo Salvini’s policies, highlighting persistent debates over political neutrality in Italian education.