Romania and Bulgaria bid for Euro 2020

Bulgaria and Romania want to play joint host to the European Football Championships in 2020. Romania libera newspaper comments: "To hold the 2012 championships, Poland and Ukraine must together spend over 100 billion (yes, billion) euros in infrastructural development alone. And yet their infrastructures are incomparably more advanced than Romania's. ... Money must also be invested in countless other areas: constructing 'elite' stadia and hotels ..., modernising railway stations and airports. ... Poland and Ukraine profited from a unique situation when they were awarded Euro 2012. With these games, those people were rewarded who had supported Michel Platini's candidacy as UEFA president. To become president, Platini had allied himself not with the West, but with the small Eastern powers. ... Will he once more take a risk in championing Romania's interests? Certainly not."

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