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

Day: December 22, 2014

a pair of silver handcuffs on a white background
Europe 

Major network trafficking heroin into EU bust

December 22, 2014December 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Macedonia

An extensive network of heroin traffickers, bringing large quantities of the drug into the European Union, has been dismantled following

Read more
Europe 

Four Galileo satellites being readied for launch

December 22, 2014 The Prague Post final frontier

Engineers at the European Space Agency opened an early Christmas present — a new satellite for the Galileo navigation program.

Read more
Bulgaria 

Changes to Bulgarian pension system appear set for rethink

December 22, 2014December 23, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Controversial changes to Bulgaria’s pension system, although approved by Parliament, appear set for a rethink against a background of severe

Read more
Bulgaria 

Barekov resigns as leader of ‘Bulgaria Without Censorship’ coalition

December 22, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Nikolai Barekov, the former talk show host around whom the populist Bulgaria Without Censorship (BWC) party was formed and who

Read more
Bulgaria 

Seven EU ambassadors sign joint letter calling for judicial reform

December 22, 2014December 23, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency judiciary

Seven ambassadors of European Union countries to Bulgaria have signed a joint letter calling for reforms in the judiciary and

Read more
Europe 

Greek PM Samaras offers early general elections

December 22, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

In a televised address to the Greek people on December 21, prime minister Antonis Samaras revealed his proposal towards avoiding

Read more
Become a patron

  • Editor's pick

  • Popular

  • Recent

Editor's pick
  • July 8, 2025July 8, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff
    EC posts Q and A on Bulgaria’s changeover to the euro
  • July 2, 2025July 2, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff
    Allegra Festival: Landscapes of Sound starts in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia on July 10
  • June 4, 2025June 9, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff
    EC, ECB convergence reports say Bulgaria ready to join euro area on January 1 2026
Popular
  • European Parliament votes by massive majority in favour of Bulgaria adopting the euro
    July 8, 2025, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Eurogroup supports keeping lev – euro exchange rate unchanged as Bulgaria heads to adoption of the European currency
    July 7, 2025, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Bulgarian national political row over arrest of Varna mayor
    July 9, 2025, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Bulgaria's government updates national plan for introduction of the euro
    July 2, 2025, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Bulgaria's c-bank approves revised designs of country's euro coins – with just one change
    April 9, 2025, by The Sofia Globe staff
Recent
  • July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff
    S&P Global, Fitch raise Bulgaria’s credit rating to ‘BBB+’ on euro adoption approval
  • July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff
    Eurostat: EU population increased in 2024 for fourth consecutive year
  • July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff
    Meeting Zelenskyy, Bulgaria’s PM pledges support for post-war reconstruction of Ukraine
  • July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgarian Air Force hosting international exercise Thracian Star 2025
  • July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff
    Sofia’s Nevsky cathedral to be backdrop for opera productions in July 2025

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.

December 2014
M T W T F S S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  
« Nov   Jan »
  • About Us
  • Editorial staff
  • Contact us
  • Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2025 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.Ok