Skip to content
The Sofia Globe

The Sofia Globe

Bulgaria’s independent English-language news and features website.

  • Bulgaria
  • Europe
  • World
  • Business
  • Perspectives
  • People
  • Leisure
  • Sport
  • Videos

Year: 2013

queue of silhouette figures outside a door marked next
Bulgaria Europe News 

68 000 young people unemployed in Bulgaria in April 2013 – Eurostat

May 31, 2013May 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

April 2013 saw 5.62 million young people – meaning under-25s – unemployed in the European Union, about 68 000 of them

Read more
Bulgaria News 

Sirens to sound in Bulgaria on June 2 2013 to honour memory of Hristo Botev

May 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Across Bulgaria, sirens will sound at noon on June 2 2013 in an annual custom honouring the memory of revolutionary,

Read more
Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian President holds firm against appointing ambassadors who were communist secret service agents

May 31, 2013June 2, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Kristian Vigenin, Rossen Plevneliev

In one of the first most significant differences between Bulgaria’s socialist-led government and the country’s head of state, President Rossen

Read more
Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s new Foreign Minister on the Western Balkans, former State Security agents

May 31, 2013June 2, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Dossier Commission, Kristian Vigenin

Bulgaria’s new Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin, a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party cabinet that came to power in Sofia

Read more
Business Europe 

Medvedev offers Temelin promises

May 31, 2013 Michael Finnigan of The Prague Post energy, nuclear

The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has promised Czech companies will secure orders worth billions of euros if the Czech-Russian

Read more
Europe News 

UN war crimes court acquits two Milosevic allies

May 31, 2013 Lisa Bryant of VOANews Serbia

A United Nations war crimes court has acquitted two key allies of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The men were

Read more
Bulgaria News Perspectives 

What is to become of them?

May 31, 2013June 9, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Plamen Oresharski, Rossen Plevneliev, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

Gazing on Bulgaria’s newly-elected 42nd National Assembly and the personalities that dominated that day of high drama that was the

Read more
News World 

Asteroid 1998 QE2 to make close encounter

May 31, 2013 VOANews final frontier

A 2.7-kilometer-wide asteroid will pass within 5.8 million kilometers of Earth on Friday, May 31, and while it poses no

Read more
Bulgaria Leisure News 

What’s On: Children’s festival in Sofia’s South Park

May 31, 2013May 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria celebrates the Day of the Child on June 1, and among planned events is a childrens’ festival on June

Read more
  • ← Previous
  • Next →
Become a patron

  • Editor's pick

  • Popular

  • Recent

Editor's pick
  • July 24, 2026July 24, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgarian Parliament approves 2026 Budget package at second reading
  • July 23, 2026July 23, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Poll finds serious decreases in approval ratings of Bulgarian PM Radev and his government
  • May 12, 2026May 18, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria’s Radev Cabinet: meet the ministers
Popular
  • ECB reveals shortlisted designs for new euro banknotes, launches public poll
    July 23, 2026, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Iran: Bulgaria's decision-makers must bear responsbility for 'dangerous decision' to host US tankers
    July 27, 2026, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • EU sends planes and firefighters as wildfires ravage France and Spain
    July 27, 2026, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Sofia tells Tehran: Bulgaria not a party to the conflict
    July 26, 2026, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Bulgaria's Defence Ministry 'exploring options for second-hand fighter jets'
    July 28, 2026, by The Sofia Globe staff
Recent
  • July 30, 2026July 30, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria’s Parliament approves changes to election law
  • July 30, 2026July 30, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgarian Foreign Minister holds talks with Iranian counterpart about US aircraft
  • July 30, 2026July 30, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Alpha Research: Radev’s government has 42% approval, 33% disapproval ratings
  • July 30, 2026July 30, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    EC pays out further 3.47 billion euro to Ukraine for drones, missiles, air defence and Gripen fighter jets
  • July 30, 2026July 30, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Polish air defences on high alert after suspected Russian ballistic missile falls in eastern Poland

Help support the Globe

The Sofia Globe team can testify that upholding the globe is reminiscent of the work of Atlas.
Please support us in continuing to offer - as we set out to do when we launched in June 2012 - journalism that is truly independent and informed. All donations are gratefully received as we put in place our plans to grow in the years ahead.

Sign up for The Sofia Globe bulletin

Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.


About Us: The Sofia Globe

The Sofia Globe provides news, features, insight and analysis about Bulgaria, Central and Eastern Europe and the wider world according to the high professional standards of independence and objectivity that we have set ourselves in our Editorial Charter. Read more about us.

Contacts

For editorial, advertising and general inquiries, please e-mail [email protected].

Legal Notice Действителен собственик на настоящото издание е Клайв Левиев-Сойър.

July 2026
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Jun    
  • About Us
  • Editorial staff
  • Contact us
  • Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2026 The Sofia Globe. All rights reserved.
Developed by SymbiOpen.
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.