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Radu Vasile
Former Prime Minister of Romania
(PNTCD)
Former
Senator (PD)
Born: October 10, 1942, Sibiu
Married, three children (Mihai, Tudor, Ioana)
Religion: Orthodox
Nationality: Romanian
Education
- 1967 - Graduate, with exceptional results, of the Faculty of History - University of Bucharest. For political reasons (his father having been a political prisoner, a lawyer, deceased in 1986) he was barred access to higher education immediately after graduating school
- 1977 - Ph.D. in economic doctrines
- After 1990 - Refresher studies in European Integration (Salonic and
Munchen)
Professional activity
- 1967-1969 - Historian, "Village Museum", Bucharest
- 1969-1972 - Scientific researcher, "Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History, Romanian Academy
- 1972 - Assistant lecturer, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest. Not being a Communist Party member, he is barred promotion in a higher Education hierarchy
After 1989
- Assistant professor, vice-dean, Faculty of Trade, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest
- 1993 - Professor, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest
Political activity
- 1990 - Member of the Christian-Democratic National Peasant Party (CDNPP), Head of the Economic Department of
CDNPP. Spokesman for CDNPP. Member of the Board of Executives of the CDNPP, Vice-president
- Secretary General of CDNPP and President of the CDNPP Parliamentary Group in the Romanian Senate (until February 1998)
- 1992-1994 Director, "Dreptatea", daily
- 1993-1998 - Vice-president of the Romanian Senate (in two consecutive legislation); Head of the Romanian Delegation to the "Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"
- 1997 & 1998 - Vice-president of the "Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe"
- 1998-1999 - Prime Minister of Romania
- Founding member of "the Central European Forum" together with Bronislaw
Geremek, Raymond Bare and Helmuth Schmidt
- 2000-2004 - Senator (PD)
Scientific activity, papers presented, publications
Books
- "World Economy, Avenues and Stages of Modernization" (2 editions: 1987 & 1997)
- "Currency & Economy" (1994)
- "Currency & Fiscal Policy (1995)
- "From the Iron Century to the II World War" (1998)
- author of the 5 university courses "A Handbook of History of Economics" (6 issues, last in 1995)
- 25 papers presented at academy research symposia in the country and abroad
- talks delivered at the "Ecole doctorale", University of Sorbone, on history-related topics
- published poetry under the pen name Radu8 Mischiu
Member of the editorial board of "Romania and the European Union"
Foreign languages
- French, English, and Italian
Hobbies
- Poetry, satirical literature, chess and football
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