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: June 19, 2015

Europe 

Hungary’s anti-immigrant fence widely condemned

June 19, 2015June 19, 2015 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post Hungary, Serbia

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Cécile Pouilly has joined voices condemning Hungary’s announced plan to build a fence

Read more
Europe 

EU finance ministers look for a solution to Greek debt crisis

June 19, 2015June 19, 2015 VOANews euro zone, Greece

European Union finance ministers met in Luxembourg Friday ahead of an emergency summit on Greece Monday after failing to reach

Read more
Perspectives 

One year on, CCB saga in Bulgaria far from over

June 19, 2015 Alex Bivol CCB affair

A year after the Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB) asked to be put under the central bank’s administration on June 20

Read more
Bulgaria 

Bulgaria high court overturns jail sentence for former interior minister Tsvetanov

June 19, 2015September 14, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation (SCC) ruled on June 19 to overturn the four-year jail sentence handed to former interior

Read more
Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs adopt mortgage default protection bill

June 19, 2015June 19, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament passed at second reading on June 19 a bill amending the Civil Procedure Code, meant to provide stronger

Read more
Business 

Bulgaria has lowest alcohol, tobacco, restaurant and hotel consumer prices in EU – Eurostat

June 19, 2015June 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat

Consumer price levels in Bulgaria are less than half the European Union average, and the country has the lowest prices

Read more
Business 

Bulgarian newspaper titles, circulation decrease – statistics institute

June 19, 2015June 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Media

A total of 295 newspaper titles were published in Bulgaria in 2014, with a collective circulation of 315 712, both

Read more
Europe 

Tsipras: Greece will stay in the euro zone

June 19, 2015 VOANews euro zone, Greece

The Greek prime minister has promised that “there will be a solution to the Greek debt crisis that will allow

Read more
Bulgaria 

Road deaths in Bulgaria increased 9% in 2014, as EU slips in reducing traffic fatalities

June 19, 2015June 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of 655 people died in motor accidents in Bulgaria in 2014, a figure nine per cent higher than

Read more
  • ← Previous
Become a patron

  • September 2, 2023September 11, 2023 Ralitsa Kovacheva
    Disinformation – This is the Kremlin speaking: Nato and the US are ‘aggressor’ and ‘evil-doer’
  • July 6, 2023July 10, 2023 Clive Leviev-Sawyer
    Visiting Bulgaria, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy gives Radev a lesson on reality
  • June 7, 2023June 7, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria’s Denkov coalition government: meet the ministers
  • Bulgarian Navy destroys drone with mortar attached found near coastal village
    September 18, 2023, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Bulgaria's PM: Grain producers 'started behaving like terrorists'
    September 16, 2023, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • EU ban on flavoured heated tobacco products comes into force
    November 23, 2022, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Bulgaria's PM on farmers' protest: Main problems already solved
    September 17, 2023, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Bulgaria expels Russian church cleric, two others, on national security grounds
    September 21, 2023, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • September 21, 2023September 21, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria’s Parliament approves anti-corruption legislation
  • September 21, 2023September 21, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria expels Russian church cleric, two others, on national security grounds
  • September 21, 2023September 21, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria: Supporters of pro-Kremlin minority party clash with police at Soviet Army Monument
  • September 21, 2023September 21, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria’s Independence Day long weekend: Weather outlook
  • September 20, 2023September 20, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgarian President addresses UN General Assembly

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.

June 2015
M T W T F S S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930  
« May   Jul »
  • About Us
  • Editorial staff
  • Contact us
  • Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2023 The Sofia Globe. All rights reserved.
Developed by SymbiOpen.