After weeks of mounting pressure due the revelation that large parts of his doctoral dissertation where copied from other works the impending resignations of the Minister has just been announced.
The whole affair happens at a very inconvenient time for Chancellor Merkel. For one the Bundeswehr is in midst of what might be its biggest reform (including the end of the draft), the mission in Afghanistan grows more and more controversial and the ongoing conflicts and revolutions in the Arab world which already required the Bundeswehr to evacuate Germans and other nationals from several countries. Further there are several important state elections in the coming months and the conservatives already lost the recent one in Hamburg with a disastrous result.
The whole affair happens at a very inconvenient time for Chancellor Merkel. For one the Bundeswehr is in midst of what might be its biggest reform (including the end of the draft), the mission in Afghanistan grows more and more controversial and the ongoing conflicts and revolutions in the Arab world which already required the Bundeswehr to evacuate Germans and other nationals from several countries. Further there are several important state elections in the coming months and the conservatives already lost the recent one in Hamburg with a disastrous result.
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