BERLIN (AFP) – Pinabulaanan ng defense minister ng Germany na si Ursula von der Leyen ang alegasyon na kinopya niya ang ilang bahagi ng kanyang doctoral thesis.
Gayunman, si von der Leyen “not only rejects these accusations she has... asked the medical school in Hanover,” na roon siya kumuha ng doctorate noong 1990s “to have it evaluated by a competent and independent commission,” ayon sa tagapagsalita ng defense ministry.
Ayon sa ulat ng Der Spiegel weekly: “Elements of plagiarism were found on 27 of 62 pages” ng kanyang thesis, o “proportion of 43.5 percent.”