Career
On 27 March 2012 he announced his resignation from PDL and enter the Opposition branches of the National Liberal Party and the larger alliance Social Liberal Union of which PNL is part. He has twice served as Minister of National Defense. The first appointment, from 13 March 2000 to 28 December 2000, came when President Emil Constantinescu chose him to replace defence minister Victor Babiuc, who had left the Democratic Party but refused to leave the ministerial post.
He was returned to the post from 25 October 2006 to 5 April 2007, after defence minister Teodor Atanasiu resigned following a long running dispute with President Traian Băsescu.
Within the European Parliament, he was involved in the European Union-Western Balkans dialogue, acting as a member in the Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe and the Delegation to the European Union-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee. After having graduated from the Metallurgy Department of the Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest, he pursued economic and military studies, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy title in both disciplines and a „magna cum laude” distinction from the Romanian Defence University.
He has published a series of articles and books on security and European integration topics. Frunzăverde is fluent in English, Italian and German.