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n Italy we are witnessing a positive development in the protection of animals that involves more than just criminal law. It has just been announced (at the end of June) that the Senate of the Republic has expressed itself in favour of amending and supplementing the text of an article in the Constitution - a fundamental rule of Italian law - which would recognise the protection of animals Furthermore, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union protects animals as «sentient beings» and this is a fundamental...