The Sofia Globe - daily news and features from Bulgaria, CEE and the world
Bulgaria’s government has approved a plan to celebrate 15 years of Nato membership in 2019, along with the 70th anniversary of Nato’s founding, including with a documentary film, lectures and […]
Fewer documents will be required from job-seekers when registering at Labour Bureau offices, the Bulgarian government decided on December 27. The Cabinet approved the changes through amendments to the regulations […]
At various points in the decades after the formal departure from power of Bulgarian Communist Party dictator Todor Zhivkov at the end of 1989, a range of commentators proclaimed the […]
A premiere of Donizetti’s comic opera Don Pasquale will be held on January 12 2019 at 7pm at Sofia Opera, following by another performance on January 13 at 4pm. The […]
Bulgaria’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms party and other parties with mainly ethnic Turkish electorates are holding traditional commemorations of the victims of the “Revival Process”, the communist-era campaign to [&hel ...
A total of 13 000 motorists, an average of about 1180 people a month, were caught drink-driving in Bulgaria between January and the end of November 2018, according to the […]
A warning of counterfeit banknotes has been issued as Bulgarians indulge themselves amid the Festive Season days of spending on gifts, entertainment and holiday excursions. The most commonly-counterfeited banknotes are […]
The Bulgarian Christmas charity campaign, run under the auspices of the head of state, has raised about 33 million leva (about 16.87 million euro) since its inception in 2003, reports […]
Major concerts announced for Bulgaria in 2019 so far include Britain’s Tom Odell, Lenny Kravitz, Steve Hackett, Sting, Tom Jones, Michael Bublé, Eros Ramazzotti and Sarah Brightman. Beyond that, as […]
Bulgaria’s Road Infrastructure Agency has announced a ban on vehicles of more than 12 tons from motorways and a number of the country’s busiest roads on December 26 from 2pm […]
