Euro 2012

Kyiv authority are planning to settle poor foreigners – the guests of Euro-2012 – in hoses on water near the Park Druzhby Narodov, near the Moscow bridge.

A few hundreds of hoses are planned to place on pontoon bridges and be moored, Delovaya stolitsa newspaper reports with reference to director of commercial enterprise Khozkomobsluzhyvanie Alexander Diachenko.

Every house will consist of 1 room for 4 people with bathroom unit, hot and cold water supply, TV set. The enterprise is going to make power line or equip wind energy device. The modern water-purification system will allow taking the water from the Dnieper River. The company is planning to provide tourists with parking lot not far from houses on water.

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Ukraine’s preparations to co-host the European Football Championship in 2012 have fallen badly behind schedule.

Uefa, Europe’s football governing body, has given the country until 30 November to show significant improvement, or face losing most of the matches to the co-hosts, Poland.

In the eastern city of Donetsk, people are riding high on a tide of football fever.

In May their team, Shakhtar, won the Uefa cup. Thousands came out onto the streets to celebrate and welcome the players home.

The crowd seemed oblivious to the brooding presence of a massive bronze Lenin watching over the proceedings – a reminder of Ukraine’s Soviet past.

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The ground for construction of the Public stadium in Wrocław was the first one to be prepared among all of the stadium for Euro 2012.

After seemingly difficult tasks which included removing several thousands of terraces , dehydration of the ground and replacement of the grounds, the authorities of Wrocław had to face much more harder task. The complexity of the bidding procedure and intrigues of the competing for this prestigious investment resulted in the fact that the Cort will have to select the company who will build the facility in Wrocław.

The final decision was made on the 9th of April. It gave the Greek Ligot for signing the final required contract before building the object. Wrocław did not keep anyone in waiting and on the 14th of April the contract between the representatives of the capital of the Lower Silesia and the Polish-Greek consortium under the direction of Mostostal Warsaw was signed. In the same time symbolically the construction works were initiated.

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Poles are running ahead of schedule with their preparations.

Poland is ahead of schedule in its preparations for the 2012 European Soccer Championship. The UEFA commission recently visited Poland and Ukraine to assess the situation and approved the progress made in the Polish cities of Warsaw, Poznan, Gdansk, and Wroclaw, which will host the soccer games. Poland hopes that Ukraine will keep to its schedule and will clear the backlog, otherwise it will be denied the right to host the soccer championship.

Our Euro-2012 host cities are Kyiv, Donetsk, Lviv, and Kharkiv. However, if one compares the situation in Kharkiv and Poznan, one pair of the Euro-2012 partner host cities, in terms of renovation and construction of stadiums, maintenance of highways, the availability of European-standard hotels, etc., the picture here is lamentable. Masej Malewicz, a Poznan official and a Euro-2012 organization committee member, proudly displays a business card that says “Poznan. It’s worth living here.”

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