[tormeh]

>At the beginning, there were irregularities in her CV. Now she has a recently unearthed history of plagiarism in her book and the party tried its best to avoid confession of any wrongdoing.

The CV irregularities seem to be rather minor (probably deliberate) miss-translations from English to German, if I understood it all correctly. Definitely not good, but hardly worthy of a proper scandal. The plagiarism stuff is all BS. Did someone use ctrl-c and ctrl-v? Yes. To an illegal or even immoral extent? IMO, no.

[corty]

Given current EU and German legislation protects products of the press down to "smallest snippets" (generally thought to be less than 7 words), courts will quite certainly find it illegal, at least when pertaining to copying from newspapers. Immoral depends on your point of view, I do find the respective laws immoral, so any action to break them is no moral concern of mine.

[inglor_cz]

"Definitely not good, but hardly worthy of a proper scandal."

I do not judge her hard for that, but I am definitely interested in her reaction.

The position of a German federal chancellor is a "high friction" one. Whoever gets elected will be drawn into power games with Putin, Biden and Xi. This requires certain toughness and willingness to fight back smartly. I am not sure yet whether Baerbock has it; her experience with high-level political positions is very limited.