Editing Radu Vasile

{{Short description|Prime Minister of Romania (1942–2013)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name        = Radu Vasile 
|image       = Radu Vasile(2).tif
|office      = [[Prime Minister of Romania]]<!-- Please do not add his order, it is against WP:MOS, unused and clutter, only exception is the President of the United States. -->
|president   = [[Emil Constantinescu]]
|term_start  = 17 April 1998
|term_end    = 13 December 1999
|predecessor = [[Gavril Dejeu]] <small>(Acting)</small> <br />[[Victor Ciorbea]]
|successor   = [[Alexandru Athanasiu]] <small>(Acting)</small><br />[[Mugur Isărescu]]
|office2        = Secretary general of the [[Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party]]
|term_start2    = January 1996
|term_end2      = April 1998 
| office3             = Member of the [[Senate of Romania]]
| term_start3         = 16 October 1992
| term_end3           = 12 December 2004
|birth_date  = {{birth date|df=yes|1942|10|10}}
|birth_place = [[Sibiu]], [[Kingdom of Romania]]
|death_date  = {{death date and age|df=yes|2013|7|3|1942|10|10}}
|death_place = [[Bucharest]], Romania
|party       = [[Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party]] {{small|(1989–2000)}} <br /> [[Democratic Party (Romania)|Democratic Party]] {{small|(2000–2007)}} <br /> [[Democratic Liberal Party (Romania)|Democratic Liberal Party]] {{small|(2007–2013)}}
|alma_mater  = [[University of Bucharest]]<br />[[Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies]]
| profession  = Professor of Economics at the [[Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies]]
}}

'''Radu Vasile''' ({{IPA|ro|ˈradu vaˈsile}}; 10 October 1942 – 3 July 2013) was a Romanian politician, historian, academic/professor, and poet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stirileprotv.ro/stiri/actualitate/radu-vasile-a-murit.html |title=Radu Vasile a murit. Fostul premier al Romaniei avea 71 de ani și suferea de cancer |publisher=Stirileprotv.ro |access-date=2013-07-04}}</ref>

Originally a member of the [[Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party]] (PNȚ-CD), Vasile served as the [[Prime Minister of Romania]] between 17 April 1998 and 13 December 1999, and was notably confronted with the last [[Mineriad]] (more specifically the [[February 1999 Mineriad]]). Subsequently, between 2000 and 2004, he was elected as a [[Senate of Romania|Senator]] on behalf  the [[Democratic Party (Romania)|Democratic Party]] (PD). In addition to his political career, Vasile published poetry under the [[pen name]] ''Radu Mischiu''.

== Biography ==

Vasile was born in [[Sibiu]] in 1942, and was raised in the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] faith.<ref>{{cite web|first=Sorin|last= Ghica|url=http://adevarul.ro/news/eveniment/cel-mai-dramatic-moment-mandatul-depremier-radu-vasile-1_51d415b7c7b855ff56f91552/index.html |title=Cel mai dramatic moment din mandatul de premier al lui Radu Vasile|newspaper=[[Adevărul]]|date= July 3, 2013| access-date= June 13, 2020|language=ro}}</ref> In 1967, he graduated from the Faculty of History at the [[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.{{citation needed|date=July 2013}} In 1971, he became a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Economic History at the [[Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies]] (ASE). In 1977, he obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the same institution of higher education and in 1978 he became a lecturer at this institution.

After the [[Romanian Revolution]] of 1989, Vasile was elected (with student  support){{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} Vice Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at ASE, a position he held until 1992. After 1990, he took refresher studies in European Integration at [[Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]] and [[Munich]], [[Germany]]. In 1994, he became a professor at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Sciences (ASE).

He died of colon cancer in [[Bucharest]] in 2013, and was buried at the city's [[Bellu Cemetery]].<ref name="archive.is_07-07-2013">{{citation|url=https://archive.today/20130707195426/http://stiri.tvr.ro/fostul-premier-radu-vasile-a-fost-inmormantat-cu-onoruri-militare-la-cimitirul-bellu-catolic_32433.html|title=Fostul premier Radu Vasile a fost înmormântat cu onoruri militare, la…| newspaper=archive.is|date=7 July 2013|access-date=7 July 2013}}</ref>

== Political activity ==

He became a member of the [[Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party]] (PNȚ-CD) in January 1990. On the party line, Radu Vasile gradually advanced as follows: head of department (Studies Department), alternate member of BCCC after the [[Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party]] (PNȚ-CD) congress in September 1991, spokesman since 1991, senator from Bacău since 1992, Secretary General after the Congress from 1996. Between 1993 and 1994, he was the director of the newspaper "Dreptatea".

Since 1993, he has been vice-president of the [[Senate of Romania]] and vice-president of the Senatorial Budget-Finance Commission (commission for budget, finance, banking and capital market). In the 1996–2000 legislature, Radu Vasile was a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with the Russian Federation and the State of Israel. In the 2000–2004 legislature, Radu Vasile was a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with UNESCO and the Lebanese Republic. Radu Vasile initiated 2 legislative proposals, of which 1 was enacted law.

In terms of foreign policy, Radu Vasile also had an important activity, being a founding member of the Central European Forum, along with [[Raymond Barre]] (former Prime Minister of France), [[Helmut Schmidt]] (former Chancellor of Germany), and others.

He lectured on Romanian history at the "Doctoral Schools" at the Sorbonne and gave over 50 scientific papers at academic sessions in the country and abroad.

Radu Vasile was a senator in the 1992–1996, 1996–2000, and 2000–2004 legislatures, last time elected on the lists of the [[Democratic Party (Romania)|Democratic Party]] (PD); he was a member of the parliamentary friendship groups with [[Lebanon]] and [[UNESCO]]. As Prime Minister, he was confronted with the [[Mineriad]] of February 1999 which his government solved (along with former [[President of Romania|President]] [[Emil Constantinescu]]) by the so-called ''Peace of Cozia''.

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{cite web|url=http://www.cdep.ro/pls/parlam/structura.mp?idm=40&cam=1&leg=2000 |title=Radu Vasile Sinteza activității parlamentare în legislatură 2000-2004|language=ro|access-date=June 13, 2020}}

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