Germany: Family Minister Giffey quits amid plagiarism scandal
Franziska Giffey has resigned after coming under fire over allegations of plagiarism for a dissertation submitted in 2010. The minister maintains that she wrote her thesis in good faith. I regret if I made mistakes, says Franziska Giffey, pictured here speaking to Chancellor Angela Merkel
German Family Minister Franziska Giffey stepped down from her position on Wednesday over a long-running doctorate plagiarism scandal.
The Family Ministry confirmed that the politician from the center-left Social Democratic Party had offered her resignation to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Giffey, 43, came into the spotlight in February 2019 over a doctoral dissertation she submitted to the Free University of Berlin in 2010 which allegedly contained plagiarized passages.
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