A joint meeting of governmental UEFA EURO 2012TM coordination committees and tournament directors in Poland and in Ukraine was held in Kiev on Thursday. The meeting was chaired by Martin Kallen, UEFA Euro-2012 Director.
Kyiv
Polish-Ukrainian meeting of UEFA EURO 2012TM organizers
- Thursday, 03 September 2009 19:25
UEFA experts in Ukraine
- Monday, 17 August 2009 07:48
On Monday and Tuesday UEFA experts will, once more, check the preparations for EURO 2012 in Ukraine - as Ukrinform agency reports, citing a statement by the head of the UEFA Euro 2012 Local Organizing Committee in Ukraine, Markiyan Lubkivskiy.
On Friday, in an interview for the Svoboda radio, Lubkivskiy said that UEFA has no alternate plan for Ukraine. - Euro 2012 will be staged in four Ukrainian and four Polish cities - said Lubkivskiy. He also expressed his hope that Ukraine can manage to timely overcome delays in preparations.
Lubkivskiy also presented some dates from the championship preparations time schedule. He pointed out that on 29 August the Donbass Arena would be launched. No later than this year, on December 5th, the Kharkiv stadium will be put into use. The tournament logo will be presented later this year.
In May, UEFA declared that so far in Ukraine only Kiev is ready to stage Euro 2012. Lviv, Donetsk and Kharkiv must overcome major delays in preparations and they have until the end of November to do so.
SOURCE: Ukrinform
Kiev must accelerate preparations
- Tuesday, 02 June 2009 15:11
Victor Yushchenko, Ukraine’s President, expressed his dissatisfaction with the speed of Kiev’s preparations for the 2012 UEFA European championships and stated that in other cities of his country this process has been stable.
"I have the impression that Kiev is not interested in hosting tournament matches ", he said at a meeting of the EURO 2012 Co-ordination Board on Tuesday. The President is mostly concerned about the modernization of the capital city's Olympic Stadium that has been progressing too slowly. "The attitude of the government and [Kiev’s] municipal authorities should change radically", Yushchenko emphasized and added that the final match of the EURO 2012 championship "must be hosted on that arena".
The President is also anxious because of problems with preparations of roads connecting the cities selected to host the games and municipal transportation in each of them. The preparations in Donetsk, Kharkov and Lviv were described by Yushchenko as "stable". This evaluation results from a series of recent visits paid by the President to these cities.
The President also declared that during the next meetings of the Co-ordination Board he would like to obtain detailed information about progress in the construction of each facility being erected especially for Euro 2012.
According to an announcement of the President’s Chancellery issued during the meeting: "Victor Yushchenko appealed to mayors of cities and governors to make every endeavor to prove that the Ukrainian cities are ready to host Euro 2012".
In May UEFA’s Executive Committee debating in Bucharest decided that so far Kiev has been the only reliable Ukrainian host city, however, it is unknown whether it is capable of maintaining the right to host the final matches. To prove that, UEFA set a deadline for the Ukrainian capital city until 30 November. Similar deadlines were set for the other Ukrainian candidates. UEFA decided that they will have the right to organize EURO 2012 if they catch up with preparations by the end of November.
SOURCE: PAP
The President is also anxious because of problems with preparations of roads connecting the cities selected to host the games and municipal transportation in each of them. The preparations in Donetsk, Kharkov and Lviv were described by Yushchenko as "stable". This evaluation results from a series of recent visits paid by the President to these cities.
The President also declared that during the next meetings of the Co-ordination Board he would like to obtain detailed information about progress in the construction of each facility being erected especially for Euro 2012.
According to an announcement of the President’s Chancellery issued during the meeting: "Victor Yushchenko appealed to mayors of cities and governors to make every endeavor to prove that the Ukrainian cities are ready to host Euro 2012".
In May UEFA’s Executive Committee debating in Bucharest decided that so far Kiev has been the only reliable Ukrainian host city, however, it is unknown whether it is capable of maintaining the right to host the final matches. To prove that, UEFA set a deadline for the Ukrainian capital city until 30 November. Similar deadlines were set for the other Ukrainian candidates. UEFA decided that they will have the right to organize EURO 2012 if they catch up with preparations by the end of November.
SOURCE: PAP
Double the number of border crossings with Poland
- Thursday, 28 May 2009 06:41
Prior to Euro 2012, Ukraine and Poland should double the number of border crossings between those states, said this Wednesday the deputy chief of the Ukrainian State Border Guard, Pavlo Shisholin.
Co-operation between Polish and Ukrainian Ministries of Internal Affairs
- Wednesday, 27 May 2009 13:59
This Wednesday in Kiev, the Ministries of Internal Affairs of Poland and Ukraine signed a statement of co-operation during European Football Championship organised by both states in 2012. The next step is execution of an inter-governmental agreement on this matter, said Vice-Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Oleksandr Sаvchenko.