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Bulgarian media mogul Delyan Peevski has announced he is renouncing the European Parliament seat he won on Sunday for the mainly ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, MRF.

Bulgarians celebrate the world Emergency Medicine Day for the second consecutive year. Doctors, paramedics and nurses from the Center for Emergency Medical Assistance - Sofia put on their white aprons with orange strips with the inscription "I am coming to help."

Two bodies were found in an apartment in the center of Shumen. Criminalists from the police in Shumen clarify the circumstances in which the death of two people - an elderly family - occurred, reports Darik. 

A new law that will force the country's newspapers to declare their sources of income and details about their funders, sparking fears of a witch-hunt of foreign-funded media and pressure on individual donors to smaller outlets, has been attracting criticism in Bulgaria.

Bulgaria's parliament on Wednesday amended energy legislation to give the country's Energy and Water Regulatory Commission, KEVR, the final say on the sales of 20 or more per cent of any gas or electrical distribution company operating in the country.

Delyan Peevski of the Movement of Rights and Freedoms was the Bulgarian politician who enriched himself the most in 2017, according to the property and interests declarations published on Monday by the Commission for Illegal Assets Forfeiture, CIAF.

There will be 300 leva fine for skaters performing stunts outside the designated places, according to the current draft order for public order in Sofia. Skaters are unhappy with two things - that the municipality will ban them from something without giving them a free alternative, as well as the word "cascade" in the text, because it can be interpreted by law enforcement in different ways.

Bulgaria continues to drop down in the Reporters Without Borders Index of Media Freedom and is in a lower position than any other member of the European Union. Our country is now 111th, while in 2017 it was 109th.

 Bulgarian Energy Minister Temenuzhka Petkova submitted her resignation on Friday in order to "erase all doubts" about a deal that saw the assets of the largest private energy company in Bulgaria, CEZ, sold to a family-owned business to which she allegedly has ties.

Several important bills have to be on the agenda today, according to bTV. 

The United Patriots propose changes to the Criminal Code to criminalize radical Islam. According to them, anyone who preaches radical Islam can be punished by one to five years imprisonment and a fine of up to BGN 5000.