04/03/2008

Euro 2012 - the questionable building will be liquidated.

Category: Economy, Stadiums, Ukraine — admin @ Mar 4th, 2008

“Trojickyj” shopping centre that is build in the neighbourhood of the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, will have been liquidated by 1 June - an agreement there upon was signed by both, representatives of the Ukrainian government and the owners of the “Trojickyj” shopping centre.

According to the document, till 10 February, the Kiev authorities and the owners of the shopping centre will appoint a working group which decide about the compensation credit for the liquidated building.

UEFA repeatedly called down the Ukrainian authorities that the stadium in Kiev, as the arena for EURO 2012, does not fulfill the security standard. In case of a vacation during EURO 2012 football matches, the shopping centre would hinder such an emergency action.

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18/02/2008

Tusk: We will give 360 mln zl for stadiums

Category: Economy, Euro 2012, News, Poland — admin @ Feb 18th, 2008

The Prime Ministe,r Donald Tusk, ensured the presidents of cities - organizers of the EURO 2012 football championship that the build of stadiums in Gdansk, Wroclaw and Poznan will betusk co-financed by the central budget. During a meeting in Warsaw the Prime Minister and the representatives of praticular cities presented a schedule of the championship spadework and

the miniatures of building where the football matches will be played. Additionally, Donald Tusk informed about the calling of the Organizational Committee where he was going to be leader.

The intention of the Wednesday meeting it was not to quiten anybody. EURO championship is a great challenge so we need to work in the high agog. The rebuke of UEFA is not a problem, it is a support. - Tusk comments on the latest Europe Federation rating which put an attention to the ‘delay’ in Polish and Ukrainian preparation to the EURO 2012. The committee included, among others, vice-premiers Waldemar Pawlak and Grzegorz Schetyna, the Minister of Infrastructure - Cezary Grabarczyk, the Minister of Sport and Tourism - Mirosław Drzewiecki, four presidents of the following cities: Gdansk, Poznan, Warsaw and Wroclaw, the representaitve of PZPN and the leaders of all the parliamentary clubs. Tomasz Arabski was pointed as the committee’s secretary. (more…)

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17/02/2008

Europe Championship 2012: The high time for building.

Category: Economy, Euro 2012, Stadiums — admin @ Feb 17th, 2008

In two-week time the representatives of Polish and Ukrainian football federation will learn the UEFA reports about the conditions of EURO 2012 preparations. On the base of those reports further steps for the coming months will be defined.

During the meeting in Nyon all reports created on the base of UEFA experts’ visit in Poland and Ukraine (October 2007) will be shown. One report will deal with stadiums, the another one: transport infrastructure, which means roads, rails, airports and accomodation - said the leader of PZPN group that takes care of EURO 2012, Adam Olkowicz. (more…)

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15/11/2007

Residence centers on Euro 2013 financed from budget?

Category: Economy, Euro 2012, Ukraine — admin @ Nov 15th, 2007

Over 70 proposals for location of residence centers came to The Ministry of Sport for teams, which will take part in organized by Poland and Ukraine football championship of Europe in 2012.

Appropriate buildings are to be co-financed from central budget. – The list of 16 centers to be build before Euro will be established by the end of the year. The investments will be subsided from central budget – cleared up Marcin Roszkowski in his conversation with The Ministy of Sport spokesman.

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19/10/2007

Euro 2012 sets Ukraine tough test

Category: Articles, Economy, Ukraine — admin @ Oct 19th, 2007

The industrial heart of eastern Ukraine was glowing in a beautiful sunset as local heroes Shakhtar Donetsk took on their arch-rivals Dinamo Kiev.

Yet the Soviet-era stadium looked small and a bit too old-fashioned for Shakhtar Donetsk, one of the country’s top teams.

There are concerns that Ukraine may not be ready in time for the Uefa European Football Championships in 2012, which it will co-host with Poland. It will be the most prestigious project that Ukraine has ever co-hosted, and it is expected to attract thousands of fans. But there are fears that the politicians here do not have their eye on the ball. Donetsk is one of four host cities in Ukraine. All of the venues were built by the communists, and they are well past their best, needing to be replaced or renovated. Ukraine has faced one political crisis after another and now the country is preparing for a general election. “The most difficult thing will be to change the attitude, to make the authorities look in the direction of football and start paying attention to the country’s infrastructure,” says Dmitriy Chigrinsky, a player for Shakhtar Donetsk and Ukraine. “It’s no secret that our country needs serious modernisation,” Dmitriy adds.
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15/07/2007

Shortage of male construction workers in Poland

Category: Economy, Euro 2012, News, Poland — admin @ Jul 15th, 2007

Poland is training women to work on building sites because so many men have left to work in Britain.

As the Polish economy grows and especially now that the country has landed the Euro 2012, there is a huge shortage of construction workers.

Employment authorities on Poland have said so many male builders have gone to the UK that there is simply not enough, but that training up some of the many unemployed women to do the work was a logical move. (more…)

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06/07/2007

UEFA: Gadgets? Domains? Totally worthless

Category: Articles, Economy, Euro 2012, UEFA — admin @ Jul 6th, 2007

The gadgets sold with the logo of Poland-Ukraine Bid are illegal. The Internet domain names including references to EURO 2012 that are registered on mass scale may prove to be worthless.

In their bid Poland and Ukraine committed themselves to support UEFA in enforcement of its industrial property rights covering the rights to the logo of Poland and Ukraine bid and logo of the future Championships. Authorities of both countries are to help the organizers in combating the so-called ambush marketing, i.e. practices consisting in marketing of goods and services based on associations with the European Championships. UEFA pays particular attention to such practices and therefore e2012.org publishes the following statement of UEFA on that matter:

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Ministry: Poland on target for roadworks ahead of Euro 2012

Category: Economy, Euro 2012, Poland — admin @ Jul 6th, 2007

Warsaw (dpa) - Poland’s Ministry of Transport Thursday said roadworks ahead of the Euro 2012 football play-offs were on target, denying claims to the contrary made by road construction experts.
On Monday, Polish experts insisted the country was nearly 13 billion dollars short of the 47 billion dollars it needed to make the country’s derelict road network ready for an influx of football fans for the Euro 2012 playoffs.

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02/07/2007

Poland-Economy/EU/Euro

Category: Articles, Economy, Euro 2012, Poland — admin @ Jul 2nd, 2007

Central banker: Euro for Poland in 2012 at earliest
Warsaw (dpa) - European Union member Poland could adopt the bloc’s common currency the euro in 2012 at the earliest, a full eight years after the country’s EU entry, Poland’s central bank (NBP) chief Slawomir Skrzypek said Friday in Warsaw.
The central banker said he was optimistic Poland would meet the Maastricht Treaty criteria for the public deficit by 2009, preparing the way for two years in the ERM2 currency mechanism prior to the switch from the Polish zloty to the euro.

Poland’s Minister of Finance Zyta Gilowska recently vowed Poland would stick to the euro conversion criteria agreed with the EU regarding the public deficit. The European Central Bank has put a 3 per cent of GDP ceiling on the public deficit as a major prerequisite for euro adoption.

In Poland, this year’s public deficit is expected not to exceed the 3.4 per cent of GDP agreed with the EU. In 2008, the deficit will stand at 3.2 per cent of GDP, while in 2009 it is expected to shrink to 2.9 per cent of GDP, according to Poland’s Ministry of Finance.

NBP chief Skrzypek also signalled that an expert report on Poland’s readiness for euro adoption will publish its findings by the end of 2008.

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