LONDON – As a rule, politicians are forced to resign from office because they are embroiled in scandals about their conduct or their financial arrangements, or occasionally, an unacceptable remark they made or were accidentally overheard making in public.
But in Europe, another spectre is toppling politicians from power: plagiarism, the discovery that they cheated in obtaining the higher university degrees they claim to hold.
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