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According to research of the UEFA experts and hosting countries representatives, which have carried out the detailed analysis of forthcoming tournament competition, no match of European championship group stage has a 'high risk' status. This was announced by the Director of local organizing committee "Euro 2012 Ukraine" Markiyan Lubkivsky. "We estimated all the matches of group stage as low risk matches. We are preparin...'

For convenience of foreign football fans coming to Ukraine for the matches of European championship by rail, the both host countries of the tournament agreed to organize in border crossing locations the special points of transfer. The creation of such transfer points is essential mostly because of the difference in width of rail track. "It will be as follows: the Polish train by narrow track arrives at Dorohusk (Poland), the fans go thro...'

To vary the leisure activities of foreign football fans coming to Ukraine for the final part of European championship, and at the same time to acquaint them with original Ukrainian culture and rich national traditions, during the whole June 15 ethnic festivals will be carried out on the territory of outdoor Museum of Pyrohiv village not far from Kiev. The main of them is expected to be the festival of Ukrainian cuisine, where the most famous ...'

The question of accommodation of Euro 2012 fans continues to evoke a wide response in Ukraine. In addition to the problem of overpriced hotels and hostel, of which we wrote before, the incidents of Internet fraud have appeared, i.e. the sale of places in non-existing camping sites to the football fans. The offers to reserve a place in tent camp near Kharkov at the price of 30-40 EUROs per night appeared in the Net a week ago. But according to...'

For the convenience of fans, going to visit Ukraine this summer for the matches of a final part of continental football championship, on the eve and during the tournament in exchange offices of the main European airports the Ukrainian national currency - hryvnia - will be on sale. The Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, the Minister of Infrastructure Boris Kolesnikov, supervising the process of the country’s preparation for the European foo...'

The foreign fans, going to visit the matches of the final part of European championship this summer, have already bought the tickets for the games, but they don't rush into booking the accommodation in host cities of Ukraine. The reason is extremely high cost of dwelling in the hotels. Nevertheless, the Ukrainian organizers of Euro 2012 assure: the country has enough places for accommodation of the guests of tournament at affordable costs....'

According to the most recent information given by UEFA General Secretary Gianny Infantino, more than 1, 5 million of fans from all over the world are going to come for Europian football championship to Ukraine and Poland this summer. Thus, the question of security for the receiving countries should become one of the key aspects. The organizers of the tournament, who work hard at preparation of the large-scale sport event, already promised to ap...'

Formal opening of the main Polish Euro 2012 facility - National stadium in Warsaw, which is scheduled on 29th of January, may fail. One of these days the fire engineering service and Regional Inspectorate of Building Control in Warsaw (PINB) refused to issue a permit for carrying out public events. The experts of control services proved their decision by unreadiness of the ground for football field. The Warsaw city authorities, considering the...'

Visa requirements for Euro 2012 fans for the period of championship should be cancelled or at least facilitated. This opinion was expressed by the president of UEFA Michel Platini. He applied to the countries receiving the tournament - Ukraine and Poland - with request to decide mutually the question of visa entry for tourists which are going to attend the matches of continental championship this summer. "The problem of entry visas is a ...'

Lately the participants of UEFA volunteer program were finally determined; they will be involved into carrying out of European football championship of 2012. Following the results of 13 000 interviews which took place in all the eight receiving cities of the tournament for the last three month, 5500 volunteers were selected: half of them will work in Ukraine, the other half - in Poland. The future championship has already achieved some records...'