Committee on Constitutional Affairs

Amid deliberations over amendments to the Constitution, the proposition to alter Bulgaria's national holiday has been abandoned between the initial and subsequent readings. Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Radomir Cholakov, made this announcement from the parliamentary podium ahead of the second vote on revisions to the Basic Law.

A scandal in the parliament led to the removal of Kostadin Kostadinov from the plenary hall and the termination of the plenary session after the deputies approved the proposal of DPS: Delyan Peevski to become a member of the Commission on Constitutional Affairs in place of Guner Ahmed.

Minister-delegate for European Affairs George Ciamba presented on Tuesday the priorities of Romania's Presidency at the Council of the European Union in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) of the European Parliament (EP).