Most of Italy’s schools closed on Thursday for students and teachers to join mass demonstrations organised by trade unions against the centre-right government’s education cuts.
Rome ground to a halt in the morning as huge crowds – organisers claimed 1m – marched through the centre to Piazza del Popolo in the largest outpouring of public discontent with the government since Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister, returned to power in May.
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Financial Times
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