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Brief info about hosting EURO 2012 cities( both Polish and Ukrainian)

Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine and one of the largest cities in Europe. Its territory is 839 km2. The city population is over 4 mln citizens. Of them, around 2.7 mln live in Kyiv on a constant basis. The city itself and the neighbouring area constitute an agglomeration with total population of 5 mln. Kyiv is the main political centre of the country. Lviv is a city in the west of Ukraine, the capital city of Halychyna, and a regional centre of the Lviv region. It is the seventh in terms of population. In 2007, 735,000 inhabitants lived in Lviv. The city’s area is 171.01 square meters, with population density being 4,300 people per square meter. Kharkiv is a city in the North-East of Ukraine, administrative center of Kharkiv region. In all probability the name of the city of Kharkiv is derived from Kharkiv River. Its population is 1 470 900 inhabitants, city area is 306. The density of the population is 4500 persons per. It is the second Ukrainian city by population number. The years of 1654-1655 are considered to be the date of Kharkiv foundation. Donetsk is a regional centre of Ukraine, the heart and brains of strong industrial centre Donbass.  The well developed megapolis with 1 million of population is located in the south-east of Ukraine. From the north to the south, the city stretches for 28 km, and from the east to the west – for 55 km, and is divided into 9 districts. Total length of its streets exceeds 2,500 km. There are 21 squares, 2,200 streets, avenues, and boulevards. Nowadays the population of Warsaw numbers 1.7 mln of inhabitants who live in eighteen city districts. Of them, the most densely populated are Mokotow (226 people per 1m2), Praga Poludnie (185 people per 1m2), and Ursynow (143 people per 1m2). One thousand of citizens own 379 cars. There are 1,230 supermarkets and food shops as well as 200 different banks in the capital. Gdansk is the city in the North of Poland, situated by the Gulf of Danzig in the estuary of the Vistula river, center of Pomeranian voivodship. The area of the city is 261. 6 km.². Its population is 463 thousand people. Gdansk has formed an urban conglomeration – so-called tricity with the population over 1 million inhabitants together with Gdynia and Sopot. The master of Baltic Arena Gdansk stadium is Lechia football club. Wroclaw is the city in the Republic of Poland, historical capital of Silesia. It is one of the largest (forth by population size) and oldest Polish cities, capital of Lower Silesian voivodship. The area of the city is 293 km². Its population is 702 257 inhabitants (2008). Wroclaw is situated on five rivers (Odra and its 4 tributaries). Poznan is the city in the central part of Western Poland, on the Warta river, administrative center of the Greater Poland voivodship, large business, industrial and educational center of Poland. Its population is 607.5 thousand inhabitants (2005). The area of the city is 261.85 km².

Platini will give a briefing at the Donbas Arena

UEFA President Michel Platini will visit Donetsk on 7 April as part of his official trip.

During his stay in the mining capital, Mr. Platini will check the take-off and landing strip construction at the international airport terminal "Donetsk", he will also come to see for the first time the new home ground of the Miners – the fifty-thousand capacity Donbas Arena.
At the arena, UEFA President is to take part in the presentation of Donetsk as a host city for EURO 2012 and a briefing by representatives of UEFA, FFU, EURO 2012 Ukraine LOC, to be held jointly with government officials and the city authorities. Please pay attention to the fact that the briefing will be of a statement format without any questions to be posed to the speakers. It is scheduled for 14:00.

International investors are interested in Ukraine! Are YOU?

Ukraine is taken on world financial markets as a solvent and stable state, this is evidenced by increasing its ranking by leading international organizations - said Deputy Minister of Finance Andriy Kravets. These changes gain special significance in the context of Ukraine's preparations for EURO 2012 because the strong position of our country in the world financial market will help to raise investments in preparing championship facilities.
«Standard & Poor's upgraded Ukraine's sovereign rating, remove it from the category of "dangerous situation" and move to "sufficient capacity to meet financial obligations", - told Andriy Kravets. In addition, Mr. Kravets said that rate raising at the national scale presents on Ukraine's ability to timely and fully perform its obligations concerning the Ukrainian emitters. As said Deputy Minister that Standard & Poor's changed its outlook for Ukraine to positive and agency Fitch changed its forecast of defaults of emitters from negative to stable.
"This is basis in order to allow other agencies also upgrade ratings of our state. So far Ukraine more affably will take on global financial markets", - emphasized Andriy Kravets.
Andriy Kravets noticed that today there are all reasons to resume cooperation with international financial organizations, in particular with the International Monetary Fund. Recall that last year the allocation of the fourth tranche of the IMF loan program for stand-by has been suspended because of unstable economic and financial situation in the country. Currently, Ukraine has already received USD 10.9 billion of promised 16.4 billion loan. Part of these funds was directed to prepare state for EURO 2012, particularly for development of hotel infrastructure.
Information Centre “Ukraine – 2012”

Qualifying schedule of EURO 2012 is completed by draw

In the UEFA Ordinary Congress XXXIV, held in Tel Aviv, was defined qualifying schedule in groups «B», «F», «G» and «H», which have not found a compromise by March 16, as stipulated by regulation.

Portugal and Denmark, which have been rivals on World Cup selection in 2010, are both going to South Africa, now they will fight for the right to play at EURO 2012 in October 8, 2010 on the Iberian Peninsula, and in October 11, 2011 – on the Jutland Peninsula

British will be waited derby of England and Wales. The first goes to the Welsh on March 26, 2011, and backward – on September 6.

Full schedule of groups B (Russia, Slovakia, Ireland, Macedonia, Armenia and Andorra), F (Croatia, Greece, Israel, Latvia, Georgia and Malta), G (England, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Wales) and H (Portugal Denmark, Norway, Cyprus and Iceland) is here.

Information Centre "Ukraine-2012" by information of uefa.com

Ukraine will be the part of the Earth Hour! Join us, dear friends! At 8.30pm on 27 March, lights will go out for one hour all over the world!

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