BUCHAREST, Romania An academic panel has ruled that Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta plagiarized large sections of his doctoral thesis and called for him to be stripped of his doctorate.
Marius Andruh, who heads the 21-member National Council for Attesting Titles, Diplomas and University Certificates, said Friday that 85 pages out of the 307-page thesis were determined to have been copied without proper attribution. The subject of Ponta’s thesis was the International Criminal Court.
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BUCHAREST, Romania An academic panel has ruled that Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta plagiarized large sections of his doctoral thesis and called for him to be stripped of his doctorate.
Marius Andruh, who heads the 21-member National Council for Attesting Titles, Diplomas and University Certificates, said Friday that 85 pages out of the 307-page thesis were determined to have been copied without proper attribution. The subject of Ponta’s thesis was the International Criminal Court.
The 39-year-old Ponta has said that he will resign if found guilty of plagiarism. He has conceded that he credited sources in the bibliography but not in the footnotes.
He also insists that the charges are politically orchestrated.
There was no immediate reaction from Ponta, who is at an EU summit in Brussels.
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