March 2014

• National Assembly President convenes lawmakers for an extraordinary sitting on March 4, 2014, 01/03/2014
• Your triumph was met with real joy and made each one of us – your compatriots - feel proud, notes the President of the National Assembly, Mihail Mikov, in his congratulatory address to Grigor Dimitrov sent with regards to his victory at the Association of Tennis Professionals Tournament in Acapulco, Mexico, 02/03/2014
• The National Assembly has rejected the presidential veto over texts of the Election Code, 04/03/2014
• The rate of household crime has gone down by 70 % since the beginning of the year, Interior minister Tsvetlin Yovchev has stated before members of the Internal Security and Public Order Committee of the 42nd National Assembly, 05/03/2014
• Yanaki Stoilov, Foreign Policy and Defense Committee Chairman, discussed opportunities for more active and useful economic cooperation with members of Kuwait’s parliament, 10/03/2014
• National Assembly President Mihail Mikov and members of parliament observe the Day dedicated to the Holocaust victims and gratefulness related to the rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews during Second World War, 10/03/2014
• Parliamentary Defense Committee Chairman Yanaki Stoilov and Committee Members meet with Delegation from the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Albania, 12/03/2014
• Members of Parliament pay respect with a minute of silence to the policeman killed in the town of Liaskovets’ operation, 14/03/2014
• The lists of the collected signatures asking for a national referendum to be held on issues concerning the electoral system and the modes of vote casting were sent today to the Civil Registration and Administrative Services Main Directorate of the Ministry of Regional Development, 14/03/2014
• Legal Affairs Committee holds hearing of candidates for members of the Central Electoral Commission, 17/03/2014
• National Assembly elects Ivilina Alexieva to chair the Central Electoral Commission, 20/03/2014
• The Partnership Agreement of Bulgaria and the European Union setting the frames of the assistance to be received from the EU structural and investment funds in the period 2014-2020 will be presented to the European Commission until the end of March, 20/03/2014
• National Audit Office to have 9 members, the Chair of the Office not less than 15 years of professional experience, 20/03/2014
• National Assembly President Mihail Mikov has met the Chairman of the Association of Bulgarians in Ukraine, Mr Anton Kisse, 21/03/2014
• National Assembly President Mihail Mikov confers with the delegation of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Society of Bessarabian Bulgarians in Bolgrad, 24/03/2014
• National Assembly observes the Day of Thrace – March 26th, 26/03/2014
• National Assembly President Mihail Mikov and Vice-President of European Broadcasting Union, Claudio Capon, agree public media play extremely important role as they offer and shape the values of the society, 26/03/2014
• The registration of entities performing installation, maintenance, repair or equipment modification works at power sites has been removed, 27/03/2014
• Eminent musician Ricardo Averbach - guest conductor of the third concert of music events cycle dedicated to the 135th anniversary of the modern Bulgarian state, 28/03/2014
• Parliament introduces a cap on consumer loan interest rates, 28/03/2014
• National Assembly traditionally involved in the world-wide "Earth Hour" campaign against the global climate change, 29/03/2014
• National Assembly President Mihail Mikov meets renowned Serbian actor Ljubisa Samardzic, 31/03/2014