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The EU Foreign Ministers will meet on May 14 in Brussels to decide whether toboycottEuro 2012 games hosted by Ukraine or not.

This will be a verdict rather for Ukraine than for football.

Twenty seven members of the Euro Commission, including its head Jose Manuel Barroso, have already refused to go to the event due to the case of the jailed ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko. The officials are concerned with human rights in Ukraine and Tymoshenko’s health as the latter claims abuse by prison guars.

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