Euro-2012 News Online

Hyatt International (USA) Hotel operator is considering the possibility of building its second hotel in Ukraine for Europe Football Championship 2012, as informed Stephen Ansell, the general manager of Hyatt Regency Kyiv hotel. According to Mr. Ansell hotel business is prospective in Ukraine and the company would like to develop it further in here, but at the moment setting in operation of Hyatt Regency Kyiv is a priority for the company. “But I’m sure this hotel won’t be the only one Hyatt in Ukraine. I guess we’ll open one more hotel till Euro-2012” – said Mr. Ansell.

These days Gazeta Polska published the information about UEFA inspectors’ reports, witnessing the probability of loosing Euro-2012 by Poland and Ukraine. The reason is lack of progress in preparation for the Championship final. The Polish edition informs about receiving the latest UEFA report, which evaluates preparation progress of Ukraine and Poland for Euro-2012 in color scheme. White means favorable investment climate, green color means the works are going as planned, red is a warning. Warsaw and Hozhuv, where preparation for Euro-2012 is going too slowly are highlighted in red. The city, preparing best of all for the Championship is Krakow. Gazeta Polska claims Ukraine has far more problems than Poland, namely hotels, roads and stadiums reconstruction. In UEFA report Ukraine is colored densely in red. Though UEFA hasn’t any alternative plan for holding Euro-2012 in other country there are more and more talks as to carry some Championship events from Ukraine to Poland. But Minister of Sports in Poland Miroslaw Drzewiecki has assured in public that his country isn’t searching for new Euro-2012 host-partner instead of Ukraine. Minister has also denied the information that Poland is exploring the possibility of organizing the final together with Germany. Earlier Polish mass-media informed that the UEFA was studying the possibility of transferring most of the Euro-2012 matches, initially planned to be held in Ukraine to Poland. Meanwhile there emerged hope for full-fledged visa free regime to be introduced between Ukraine and EU till Euro-2012, as stated Konstantin Yeliseyev, deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, during the session of Verkhovna Rada committee on European integration. “As to visa free regime, our benchmark is Euro-2012 in Ukraine and Poland” – informed Mr. Yeliseyev. In order to achieve the goal Ukrainian government is actively working on intensifying negotiations with EU in this domain.

The Austrian company Alpine Bau Gmbh is ready to start preparatory works at the new stadium site in Lvov in mid-August and construction in September.As informed the company management at the meeting with municipal authorities on Wednesday, the Ukrainian company “Arnika” which is Alpine Bau’s partner would finish the project adaptation for building norms of Ukraine by August, 1 and pass it on to Ukrainian public examination agency, Emergency situations Ministry and other agencies.According to Ukrainian legislation the public examination of the project may take to 30-45 days. At the same time, as stated at the meeting Andrey Sadovuy, the Head of Lvov municipal authorities, some of licencing documents for stadium’s construction are ready. So in the mid-August building site unrolling begins, and in a month the construction works start.Alpine Bau Gmbh company is planning to hold bidding for attracting subcontractors for all kinds of building works till August, 31. By the end of 2008 it’s in project to carry out excavation works and to begin the foundation laying.           In February the Austrian company Alpine Bau Gmbh has won the bid for building the stadium for Euro-2012 in Lvov. Two firms were admitted to the bidding, announced on December, 4. These were Swiss Implenia Global Solutions and Austrian Alpine Bau Gmbh. According to bidding requirements by July 2010 the investor is to build indoor stadium for 33 thousand spectators with parking lot for 1200 places, three-star hotel and sports entertainment complex for 7 thousand seats close to the stadium. Estimated cost of the stadium makes 80mln.

Adidas new ball, presented on Thursday at press-conference in Yokohama (Japan) is equipped with microprocessor system permitting to define the exact location of the ball in a field.According to FIFA officials the aim of the technology is only to help the players improve their performance. “It’s easy to blame the referees but helping them often appears to be a ticklish subject. We’re trying to support them following the FIFA guidance. The technology is focused on goal line generally. It’s 100% reliable. The information is transmitted to referee straight away” – claim in FIFA.“Smart” ball is a result of joint work of Adidas and small German company Cairos Technologies.

Work group of insurance companies League of Ukraine on insurers’ interaction issue in the framework of hosting Euro-2012 has chosen the insurance company which would head team for building and assembly risks insurance contract development. It was “Brock business” insurance company.          Also the company became the member of one more work group, which reinsures the building and assembly risks. Such need to insure building and assembly risks is connected with infrastructure development in Kiev, preparing to host Euro-2012.