EURO 2012 IN POLAND
by Julita Kowalów, Karolina Krukowska, Magdalena Mańkowska, Katarzyna Sielaczek (LOG)
Euro 2012 is organised in Poland for the first time. As we all know it’s associated with many changes and improvements in our country’s infrastructure. It’s a great opportunity to promote our country in the world. It is also a great entertainment for football supporters.
The sports stadiums are being built in Gdańsk, Warsaw, Poznań and Wrocław. These buildings were designed not only for sports competitions but for other kind of entertainment like concerts or shows. We also started to renovate our railway stations and airports. For example we built a new terminal in Łódź and we are building many motorways.
Euro 2012 is a chance to cooperate with neighbouring countries mainly Ukraine. Poland and Ukraine are planning to organize the final together. During the sport event in our country there will be about 3500 journalists who will be reporting championship for millions of people all over the world. Communication network area’s preparation are connected with cooperation with Ukraine, therefore it is a task which must be mastered together.
On the other hand, it is a big responsibility to cope with such a duty. There are some complications with infrastructure. There are some delays, the motorways may not be built in time. Chinese consortium which is building motorways in Poland doesn’t pay Polish subcontractors on time so they went on strike. Problems are also appearing in roads’ investments and building of National Stadium. The disparity between official work plan and actual situation is 16 per cent. But authorities think that these problems won’t disturb in completing the task on time.
There are 361 days left to the Europe Championship and despite of some complications we hope that everything will be successful.