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

Month: December 2014

Business 

CCB deposit payouts process begins with minor issues

December 4, 2014December 7, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Bulgarian banks paid out 25 000 deposits worth about 1.07 billion leva, or 547 million euro, on December 4, the first

Read more
Europe 

EU will support Bulgaria in South Stream dispute – EC President Juncker

December 4, 2014December 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, South Stream

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on December 4 that the EU will stand with Bulgaria on the issue of

Read more
Bulgaria 

Bulgarian culture ministry officials, public broadcasters’ chiefs boycott Binev committee

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Media

Officials from Bulgaria’s Ministry of Culture said on December 4 that they would not attend a meeting of the parliamentary

Read more
Europe 

Russia’s Putin defends annexation of Crimea

December 4, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

Russian president Vladimir Putin has defended his country’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and accused the West of using the

Read more
Business 

South Stream cancellation causes flurry of reactions in South-Eastern Europe

December 4, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, South Stream

Russian president Vladimir Putin’s announcement, in Ankara on December 1, that Moscow would scrap it plans to build the South

Read more
Bulgaria 

Minority parties’ support for Bulgarian coalition cabinet in question

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian socialist breakaway minority party ABC could withdraw its support from Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right coalition cabinet if a

Read more
Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint closed because of flooding

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff floods

The Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey was closed on the morning of December 4 because

Read more
Business 

Bulgarian banks prepare to begin payouts of CCB deposits

December 3, 2014December 4, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

On the eve of the first day that nine banks will begin payouts of claims on deposits in the Corporate

Read more
Bulgaria 

Bulgarian court approves request to suspend central bank deputy governor

December 3, 2014December 3, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Sofia City Court approved on December 3 the prosecutor’s office request to suspend Tsvetan Gounev, the deputy governor of the

Read more
  • ← Previous
  • Next →
Become a patron

  • August 3, 2022August 7, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff
    International stars to perform at Bulgaria’s 2022 Bansko Jazz Festival
  • August 1, 2022August 3, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff
    Official: Bulgaria to hold parliamentary elections on October 2
  • June 22, 2022June 26, 2022 Clive Leviev-Sawyer
    Being there: Amid the crowd as Bulgaria’s government lost the no-confidence vote
  • 2022 Perseids meteor shower peaks over Bulgaria August 12 – 13
    August 7, 2022, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Large protests in Bulgaria against risk of new Russian gas deal
    August 10, 2022, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Covid-19: Bulgaria eases mask-wearing rule
    August 9, 2022, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Multinational Thracian Viper 2022 air force exercise begins in Bulgaria
    August 8, 2022, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • US 101st Airborne 'Screaming Eagles' to deploy in Bulgaria
    August 13, 2022, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • August 13, 2022August 13, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff
    US 101st Airborne ‘Screaming Eagles’ to deploy in Bulgaria
  • August 13, 2022August 13, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff
    Plovdiv Jazz Summer continues in Markovo at end of August
  • August 12, 2022August 12, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria utilities regulator raises gas prices by 60% for August 2022
  • August 12, 2022August 12, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff
    Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Omicron BA.5 lineage remains dominant – NCIPD
  • August 12, 2022August 12, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria’s Tourism Ministry sees summer 2022 results coming in at 80% of 2019

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 © 2022 The Sofia Globe. All rights reserved.
Developed by SymbiOpen.