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despite infrastructure concerns and the threat of vandalism Euro 2012 co-organizers are sure to be a hit

was in October 2007, the team of Everton, had just landed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in the north, for a UEFA Cup Metalist and no one in the arrivals terminal was amazing .

if the players, management, journalists and supporters, all on the flight looked with open eyes in the richly painted frescoes that adorn the ceiling before looking in amazement. In the absence of a conventional baggage carousel, baggage delivered periodically just slipped on the polished wood floor after being pushed through a cat flap giant glorified located in an exterior wall.

Football fans towards the second city of Ukraine in the European Championships next summer rejected a similar experience. Last month, Kharkiv International celebrated the opening of a glass and polished chrome, a futuristic terminal. As a set of long legs, high cheekbones, the beauty of Ukraine in line for VIPs, the president, Viktor Yanukovych, has said his country was ready to participate in the competition for Poland, co-hosts for the tournament Football first major to be held in Eastern Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain.

With the lines of the Old Kharkiv socialist neo-classical Stalinist terminal is converted into a VIP room, a radical transformation is clearly underway. However, questions remain about the relevance of these host countries in general by a high-level event logistics demanding. After starting the action in Warsaw will increase from eight reasons, with the magnificent Olympic stadium in Kiev to date, opened with a live performance by Shakira on Saturday (ASF) will host the final.

After the recent tour of two countries that share the logo and the slogan "Make history together," the president of the pleasure of UEFA, Michel Platini, said the lack of "big problems "but admitted that he had" a large number of small problems to solve. " Infrastructure is the elephant in the room. If UEFA leaders can clearly be an understatement on the topic of questionable roads, rail slow and lack of affordable housing, the Foreign Office in the UK is less shy.

selected a "selection" of your travel advisory service warned against a "serious risk" of theft on trains from Poland and the caution driving on roads in Poland is "dangerous" . Meanwhile, anyone found drunk in a public place will automatically be sent to a clinic to dry.

Information

equivalent for Ukraine does not show at all reassuring. "Travellers from Asia or Africa, the Caribbean and persons belonging to religious minorities should take extra precautions," advises the Ministry of Foreign Affairs prior to emphasize the "large number" of fatalities. Visitors should be aware that alcohol is banned in some public places like parks.

Rostyslav Ogryzko
Few people have been bewitched by the golden dome of Kiev, churches, visited the ancient city of Lviv old, admired the statues of Lenin with nails around the parks and squares wide Kharkiv and Donetsk Pushkin Boulevard roll disagree.

If impeccably restored in the center of Warsaw, Gdansk political resonance, the culturally rich island dotted Poznan and Wroclaw, sometimes known as the "Venice of Poland", comparable to inspire fear and the love, no one really knows how the two countries until relatively recently in the Communist discipline would react to a sudden influx of times less than inhibits visitors.
Tranquility

is offered to the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergency Situations, staffed with police and internal forces are being trained in "extreme psychological crisis" before organizing the tournament.