Euro 2012

Amid fears the Euro 2012 finals were in jeopardy, UEFA has granted tentative approval for Poland and Ukraine to maintain hosting rights for what is one of world soccer’s most important events.

Despite the backing, UEFA warned the joint hosts to speed up their preparations, insisting the hosting deal could still be annulled, sources from European soccer’s governing body said Friday.

Poland and Ukraine were given the reprieve after UEFA’s executive committee met in Bordeaux to discuss a progress report on preparations for the tournament.

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UEFA President Michel Platini has urged the international community on Thursday to help Poland and Ukraine in their preparations for the Euro 2012.

Poland and Ukraine need support of international community – quotes the National News Agency of Ukraine “Ukrinform”. In the last few months German and Italian media speculated about taking the preparation of EURO 2012 away from Poland and Ukraine.

According to western press former communist countries will not manage such a huge project. Italians, who lost the battle to organize this event, were first to criticize.

Platini, who is in Italy, definitely denied that UEFA is going to switch Euro 2012 finals to Italian federation. I suppose that Italy will run for Euro 2016-said the UEFA president-but the Italian stadiums are not the best in Europe. Most of them are old and not too pretty- he added.

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The Modernization of the second stand of the Municipal Stadium in Poznan is on schedule.

On Thursday, at the board meeting it was confirmed that scheduled work will be completed till the end of August, according to plan.

At present the concrete work on the top floor is being finished, construction is being built, the necessary installations and the media are assembled, and the floor laying works are being done. As soon as these works are finished, chairs and handrails will be installed and the finishing works will be done.

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The tender on purchase of 20 so-called joint gravimetric compositions, which are expected to achieve the speed from 190 to 250 km/h. According to Czesław Warsewicz, the chairman of PKP Intercity, they go on Polish railway tracks at the latest in April 2012, just before European Championships in Football.

The railway branch has been waiting for announcement of this contest for months, because the value of order can achieve 400 million euro. It is not a small amount, but according to Intercity, there should not be a problem with financing this investment.

To make this happen, the company must finish the tender procedures quickly. As the chairman of the company ensures, the contract with the winner of the contest will be singed in June 2009. Warsewicz hopes, that many world-known manufacturers such as: Alstom, Bombardier, Siemens or Talgo, and also Polish firms such as Pesa and Newag will take part in the tender. Who will finally make an offer? It will be known on last days of September, when the period of sending pre-proposals expires. We can expect, that the interest will be huge.

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Decision, if Ukraine will be able to organize Euro 2012 with Poland, will be made in September. Michel Platini, the chairman of the UEFA was talking about this in Florence.

According to his words, the organization of the tournament by Poland is not threatened. During the talk with journalists Platini has announced, that the progress of preparations to Euro 2012 in both countries is not bad.

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The western stand of Śląski Stadium in Chorzów will be rebuilt comprehensively.

The rebuilding, on which the demolition of half of the recent stand is needed, increases the number of places on the stadium and i salso expected to improve the safety, provide quick evacuation, improve the comfort of watching the show and allow better access to toilets and gastronomic kiosks..
The Śląski Stadum aspires to be the arena of Euro 2012. The range extension of modernization of stadium was necessary because of the UEFA’s requirements.

So the cost of modernization of the stadium increases to 360 million zlotys. 250 million zlotys have been given on previously planned changes, including roofing the stands.

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The government has initially agreed, that the segment of highway A2, which is nearly 106 km long, from Nowy Tomyśl to Świecko (border with Germany), will be built with concrete.

– Such building will be more expensive, but then the exploitation of such highway will cost less – said Zofia Kwiatkowska, the spokesperson of Autostrada Wielkopolska. The road-building with concrete for Euro 2012 costs 22 billion zlotys more than with asphalt, whereas the preservation of concrete road is 15% cheaper. In conclusion it is worth paying more on road-building.

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