PVV junior minister loses degree after plagiarism claims

Junior health minister Vicky Maeijer, who was last year accused of plagiarism in writing her master’s law degree thesis, will have to start again following the retraction of her degree in International & European Public Law by Erasmus University. Maeijer, a minister on behalf of the far-right PVV, was said to have lifted a large number of pages of text from other sources without crediting them in her thesis when she wrote it in 2009. The discovery was made by...