ROMANIAN PM ACCUSED OF ACADEMIC PLAGIARISM
July 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN AND KEITH NUTHALL
ROMANIA'S Prime Minister Victor Ponta has been accused of plagiarising his PhD (ironically on the International Criminal Court) by two senior academic bodies. First, the Romanian National Council for Attesting Titles, Diplomas and University Certificates (CNATDCU) ruled on June 29 that the PM copied part of his 2003 thesis - and it was dismantled by the ministry of education that same day.
Then Bucharest University's ethics commission on July 20 ruled Ponta had plagiarised one third of the text "by integrally pasting blocs ...
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