MOSCOW, Sep 8 - R-Sport. Croatia, France, Germany, and Latvia will take the men's European championship in basketball in 2015 instead of Ukraine, announced in his own microblog on Twitter the head of the French basketball Federation, Jean-Pierre Suites.


in June, the European branch of the international basketball Federation (FIBA Europe) has announced the postponement of the 2015 EUROPEAN from Ukraine. In March, the tournament Director Markiyan Lubkivsky said that the unstable political and economic situation in Ukraine makes it impossible to hold the Eurobasket.

The tournament will take place from 5 to 20 October. Playoffs Eurobasket will be held in France (Lille), the group stage in France (Montpellier), Germany (Berlin), Latvia (Riga) and Croatia (Zagreb).

at the European championship will play 24 teams: Russia, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Latvia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Iceland, Macedonia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Finland, Ukraine, Serbia, France, Spain, Croatia, Turkey, Greece, Lithuania, Slovenia and Estonia.

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