european voice: Doctor, doctor

The fall from grace of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who resigned as Germany's defence minister after admitting plagiarism in his doctoral thesis, is still causing after-shocks in German politics. Silvana Koch-Mehrin, a leading member of the German Free Democrats and an MEP since 2004, is now having her doctoral thesis submitted to media and academic scrutiny (the two are not the same). [more...]