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 (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, solved by the so-called Peace of Cozia. References External links 1942 births 2013 deaths Democratic Liberal Party (Romania) politicians Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party politicians People from Sibiu Romanian Roman Catholics Prime Ministers of Romania Romanian male poets Deaths from colorectal cancer Deaths from cancer in Romania Burials at Bellu Cemetery 20th-century Romanian poets 20th-century Romanian male writers University of Bucharest alumni Academic staff of the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies alumni Romanian economists Mineriads 20th-century Romanian historians