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: March 20, 2015

Business 

InvestBulgaria Agency: The art of being there

March 20, 2015May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Money always finds its way to good ideas, and Bulgaria is a country with good and interesting ideas, says Stamen

Read more
Bulgaria 

Asylum applications in Bulgaria increase, but still less than EU average

March 20, 2015March 24, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

The number of asylum applications in Bulgaria in 2014 was eight per cent higher than in 2013, but the increase

Read more
Bulgaria 

Bulgaria backtracks on ban on land ownership by non-EU companies

March 20, 2015March 24, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian legislators have taken the first step to retreating from a controversial law approved in February 2015 providing for huge

Read more
Business 

Bulgaria sells 3.1B euro in bonds on March 19 – updated

March 20, 2015March 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria has sold 3.1 billion euro worth of bonds on foreign markets, the largest amount ever borrowed by the country

Read more
Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Excavations of Plovdiv’s Great Basilica to begin within weeks

March 20, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Plovdiv

Excavations of Plovdiv’s Great Basilica, the largest early Christian church found in Bulgaria and among the largest in South Eastern

Read more
Bulgaria 

Sofia to Athens: Implement a drastic austerity programme

March 20, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said Thursday that “the time has come” for Greece to take his country as an example,

Read more
Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM: We will insist on financial support for the gas interconnector with Greece

March 20, 2015March 23, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Greece

Bulgaria will insist that the gas hub be included in the plans of the European Commission on financial support for

Read more
Bulgaria 

Israel to assist Bulgaria’s agriculture sector, food exports

March 20, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Israel is to assist Bulgaria in the revival of its agricultural sector and is to seek the best Bulgarian food

Read more
Europe 

Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors seek green light to arrest former finance minister

March 20, 2015March 20, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Romania’s Anti-Corruption Department (DNA) has sent the country’s prosecutor-general a report in which it asks the top magistrate to notify

Read more
Become a patron

  • Editor's pick

  • Popular

  • Recent

Editor's pick
  • June 22, 2026June 22, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Simone Gramaglia: Allegra Festival is a small miracle of culture and beauty
  • June 19, 2026June 20, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Jazz under the stars on the Devetashko Plateau being held from June 26 – 28
  • May 12, 2026May 18, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria’s Radev Cabinet: meet the ministers
Popular
  • Radev threatens Bulgarian veto if Russian Patriarch remains on proposed EU sanctions list
    June 18, 2026, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Bulgaria's Foreign Minister confirms government opposes some proposed sanctions on Russia
    June 17, 2026, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Bulgaria's Environment Ministry responds to reports of oil pollution on country's Black Sea beaches
    June 20, 2026, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • European Parliament approves AI Act amendments, 'nudifier' ban
    June 16, 2026, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Germany's ambassador to Bulgaria on the need to supply weapons to Ukraine
    June 20, 2026, by The Sofia Globe staff
Recent
  • June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Week remains to end of free-of-charge exchange of leva for euro at Bulgaria’s commercial banks
  • June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    New passenger car registrations in Bulgaria up 5.3% in January – May 2026
  • June 22, 2026June 22, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria had highest annual increase in fuel prices in EU in May 2026 – Eurostat
  • June 22, 2026June 22, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Eurostat: EU’s trade surplus with UK in 2025 was 186.6 billion euro
  • June 22, 2026June 22, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office: Chinese citizen charged with espionage

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.

March 2015
M T W T F S S
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031  
« Feb   Apr »
  • 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.