“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
The Prime Ministe,r Donald Tusk, ensured the presidents of cities - organizers of the EURO 2012 football championship that the build of stadiums in 
co-financed by the central budget. During a meeting in
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.
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
Over 70 proposals for location of residence centers came to The Ministry of Sport for teams, which will take part in organized by
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.
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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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…)
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:
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.
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.
