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Public prosecutors in the city of Naples in Italy have launched an investigation into incitement to suicide after a 31-year-old woman hanged herself. Videos with sexual content in which the woman could be clearly identified had been circulating on the Internet for years, and she had been insulted and mocked on social media because of this. Italy's press is appalled and appeals to Internet users to act responsibly and show compassion.

The Foreign Affairs Committee in the British House of Commons has accused former British Prime Minister David Cameron of making grave mistakes in planning the UK's intervention in the Libya war in 2011, saying Britain's military strategy was based on false assumptions. This is another case that highlights Cameron's shortsightedness, some commentators conclude. Others praise Britain's renewed commitment to investigating questionable interventions.

Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish PKK, has called on the Turkish government and his supporters to resume peace talks. This was the first time he had been allowed to receive visitors since the Turkish peace process with the Kurds was broken off last year. Turkish commentators doubt that his call for peace will be heeded by the conflicting parties.

Hungary has violated the EU's basic values and should be expelled from the Union, Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn demanded on Tuesday. The country has attacked the independence of the press and the judiciary and is "not far from issuing orders to open fire on refugees", the minister stated. Commentators are divided on the issue of Hungary's refugee policy.

The European Central Bank has decided to leave the benchmark interest rate at zero percent, but contrary to expectations it is not extending its bond-buying programme for the time being. Some commentators criticise the bank's quantitative easing programme, pointing to the negative impact on savers. Others praise the ECB for curbing the banks' greed and pushing states to introduce reforms.

Speaking at an economic forum in the Polish city of Krynica, PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński has called for a "cultural counter-revolution" to save the EU. Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán expressed similar ideas at the event. Some commentators note with an eye to the Brexit that the Eastern European leaders' critique of the EU is fundamentally correct. For others the two leaders are very much wide of the mark.