“There are obviously mistakes for which I bear responsibility,” Laschet said in a statement on Twitter, as he admitted to not properly citing sources in his 2009 book. “I would like to apologise,” said the head of Merkel’s CDU party, adding that he would commission a review of the book to establish whether any othererrors had been made. Author and development expert Karsten Weitzenegger tweeted on Thursday that a German “plagiarism hunter” had informed him that Laschet had lifted entiresentences from his own work on integration, published a year before. (article continues below) See also on The Local:Annalena Baerbock, the Green party’s chancellor candidate, was also accused of plagiarising passages of a book in June. READ ALSO: German Greens candidate defends herself against plagiarism claimThe scandal was one of a series of blunders that left the Greens trailing badly in the polls, having briefly overtaken the conservatives in April.

Source: The Local July 30, 2021 15:56 UTC