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: July 8, 2019

Bulgaria 

Court orders Sofia city hall to wash streets to reduce air pollution

July 8, 2019July 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Sofia City Court ruled on July 8 to require Sofia city hall to wash streets more frequently in order to

Read more
Bulgaria 

Dačić’s comments about Borissov unacceptable, Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry tells Serbian ambassador

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo, Serbia

The comments by Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić regarding Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and the Kosovo issue were unacceptable

Read more
Bulgaria 

African Swine Fever: Bulgaria puts price on the heads of wild pigs

July 8, 2019July 24, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff African Swine Fever

Bulgaria will pay hunters 50 leva (about 25.56 euro) for each wild pig they shoot dead in areas where there

Read more
Bulgaria 

Court in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv upholds conviction of two for training pitbulls for dog fights

July 8, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The District Court in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv has upheld the conviction and sentences for two men found guilty of

Read more
Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM congratulates Mitsotakis on landslide victory in Greece’s elections

July 8, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov telephoned the leader of Greece’s centre-right New Democracy party, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to congratulate him on

Read more
Bulgaria 

Bulgarian prosecutors charge two Military Intelligence generals over breaches of classified information rules

July 8, 2019July 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The Military District Prosecutor’s Office – Sofia has been conducting pre-trial proceedings in connection with offences by senior officers at

Read more
Europe 

Greece’s elections: Mitsotakis’s New Democracy wins by landslide

July 8, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

With more than 92 per cent of votes counted in the early hours of Monday morning, the conservative New Democracy

Read more
Become a patron

  • November 11, 2023November 13, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria: Remembrance Day 2023 in Sofia
  • November 6, 2023November 13, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria’s 2023 mayoral elections: GERB wins most major cities, but loses Varna
  • June 7, 2023June 7, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria’s Denkov coalition government: meet the ministers
  • Bulgarian MPs overturn presidential veto of agreement on APCs for Ukraine
    December 8, 2023, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Bulgaria: Construction of Rousse – Veliko Turnovo motorway begins
    December 3, 2023, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • German Christmas market 2023 opens in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia on November 17
    November 16, 2023, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • More than 5000 UK students enroll at Bulgarian universities
    December 8, 2023, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • Bulgaria's mountain resorts gear up for 2023/24 winter ski season
    December 4, 2023, by The Sofia Globe staff
  • December 9, 2023December 9, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria joins US Net-Zero Government Initiative on carbon neutrality in activities of state institutions
  • December 9, 2023December 9, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff
    Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister: Adapting to climate change guarantees more competitiveness in tourism
  • December 8, 2023December 8, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff
    More than 5000 UK students enroll at Bulgarian universities
  • December 8, 2023December 8, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff
    Sanctions: EU adds two Hamas leaders to terrorist list
  • December 8, 2023December 8, 2023 Clive Leviev-Sawyer
    Bulgaria’s Parliament votes additional military aid for Ukraine, possibility of air space for F-16 training

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.

July 2019
M T W T F S S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  
« Jun   Aug »
  • About Us
  • Editorial staff
  • Contact us
  • Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2023 The Sofia Globe. All rights reserved.
Developed by SymbiOpen.