German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany September 16, 2015. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke - RTS1BNH
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, a potential successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel as conservative leader, has denied accusations of plagiarism in the doctoral dissertation she wrote 25 years ago.
Two of Merkel's cabinet members - former defence chief Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and former education minister Annette Schavan - had to quit after their Ph.D theses were found to include passages lifted from other works without proper citation.
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