In 2014, Romania’s then prime minister, Victor Ponta, was forced to hand back his doctorate after it emerged that much of his thesis had been plagiarised. The country’s current PM, Nicolae Ciucă, now faces a similar accusation.
President Klaus Iohannis once vowed to consign Romania’s Social Democrats to history. On November 22 he gave them his blessing to lead the country once more.
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