USR representative Christian Guinea said on Monday on Profit News TV’s Talk News program about the formation’s approach to copying Interior Minister Lucian Bode’s doctoral thesis for the National Library that they would publish fragments of the work, News.ro reported.

Guinea also said that once the process is complete, they will check the work with anti-plagiarism software and that someone would be interested in looking at the doctorates of European Funds Minister Marcel Bolosh.

Christian Guinea stated that he had seen the explanation of the director of the National Library regarding Lucian Bode’s doctorate.

“I think it’s an overly emotional and unwarranted reaction, because at the end of the day, Emilia Sherkan wrote about this situation a few months ago, what we managed to do was that a lot of people saw that the aberration was working. I don’t understand why the book, which aroused such interest among the public and arrived at the beginning of the year, was developed for 10 months. A person can write a book in 10 months, what does it mean to revise it in 10 months? Let’s be serious, it was a whole plan to block public access to this thesis, to this wisdom of Mr. Bode,” Guinea said.

According to Geaney, “his former colleague from Dilema put himself in a strange situation.”

“He is the director of the National Library, he is not a porter, not a secretary there, he could make a conscious decision, which he could prioritize this work, given that the public interest is the main one, that is, in his decision. , start with that. What law or regulatory act prevents this decision on priority?” said the representative of the UDR.

“From his response today, I saw that it would take four weeks, which again seems strange to me, so right now, as we speak, my colleagues from the EDR, volunteers, are continuing to decipher the thesis,” Guineya said.

He noted that this process of transcription is very difficult. “I rewrote three pages in an hour and a half, it’s quite difficult because you have to look at the screen. This is absurd, it could not be otherwise. Unable to take a screenshot. Today there were eight volunteers who took turns for a few hours, each rewriting a piece (..) I think that until Mr. Coroianu publishes the book, we will publish fragments of the work, because it is a shame that the public does not have access to the wisdom of Mr. Bode earlier “, – noted Christian Guinea.

When asked how he found the job, Guinea said: “It’s so boring. From an intellectual point of view, it is like cutting your own veins. It’s terribly poorly written, the language just repeats the same words in circles, at least as far as I’ve read the table of contents and the first chapter, but maybe the rest of the book will make it more interesting and a happy ending.

Christian Guinea stated that the USR’s approach is completed by the use of anti-plagiarism software to check the work.

“We will use the same plagiarism detection software. You should know that all universities in Romania have or are legally required to have anti-plagiarism software. (..) We will publish fragments, I would not like to publish everything, because I don’t even know if we will succeed until Mr. Choroyanu publishes it, but I think that the pressure on the system is beneficial, we have had two days , as we started the action,” he said.

Guinea wanted to show that the work of Lucian Bode would not be the only one that had been tested. When asked if the USR intends to check the ministers’ other doctorates, he said: “Mr Bode and Mr Kimpeanu are not the only ones, their successor at the European Foundations has two doctorates, for example. I think it would be interesting for someone to look at Mr. Bolosh’s doctoral theses.”

The former minister stated that “a doctoral dissertation is the contribution of this person, a doctor, to the universe of human knowledge (..), you are a doctor if you make an original contribution to the totality of human knowledge.” “This PhD means, it doesn’t mean that any fool gets a degree to raise his salary. Maybe that’s how it got to Romania, but it’s an aberration. The idea that you couldn’t access Mr. Bode’s wisdom didn’t seem right to me, so I made the decision: let’s go and prove that this is the only way,” he commented.

Regarding the call to Parliament by the director of the National Library, Adrian Choroianu, Guinea revealed that the USR wants him to explain whether he can change the institution’s regulations, and then “for an intellectual like Mr. Choroianu, it is an honor to change this regulation or the law obliges him”.

“Other voices say that what is in the Regulation is not written in the law. This is a welcome basis for dialogue, because it is a serious dilemma,” Guinea added.

The director of the National Library of Romania, Adrian Coroianu, announced in a post on Facebook that the volume containing the doctoral dissertation of Interior Minister Lucian Bode will be available in the coming days, as he asked to speed up the procedure for taking the book.

At the same time, Cioroianu argues with the journalist Emilia Sherkan, who presented the current status of Minister Bode’s dissertation, as well as the book in which it is published, she claims that there are legal restrictions on viewing the dissertation, while the volume that includes it is not in libraries .

On Friday, journalist Emilia Sherkan wrote that Lucian Bode’s doctoral dissertation is in the National Library, but it cannot be read on paper, but only in digital format, since reading theses on paper has been prohibited since 2016. In addition, the work is digitized and can be viewed on a computer without Internet access.

According to Emilia Sherkan, Lucian Bode published his PhD thesis in a book in 2021 with the same title as the thesis:

“Energy Security and Resource Management at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Romania in the Contemporary European Context”, however, although Bode stated that he had sent the research paper, published in book form, to the Central University Library (BCU) of Babes-Bogliai University and National Library, it is not on the shelf either in BCU in Cluj or in the National Library, the institution explains that “the process of processing the title and the copy intended for the current collection of the National Library of Romania is not complete.”

After these explanations, the USR announced the start of a marathon transcription of Minister Lucian Bode’s PhD thesis, so that it could be read by all Romanians and subjected to an anti-plagiarism check.

Emilia Sherkan qualified the USR action as a “political action” with which she has nothing to do and with which I do not want to be associated.

USR’s approach was ridiculed on Sunday by historian Mădălin Hodor, who also took issue with Şercan.