Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has said he believes that after Euro 2012 it is necessary to think how to effectively use the infrastructure built for the event and the potential obtained after the championship.
In an interview with the Izvestia v Ukraine newspaper, when asked
whether it was necessary to spend about Hr 50 billion on preparations
for the football championship, he said:” We need to think about how to
use the stadiums and other infrastructure most effectively, and how to
use in full the potential and opportunities that Ukraine received from
Euro 2012.”
“In any case, the money invested will be repaid. Remember, initially
fans did not want to come to our country, citing the fact that people in
Ukraine are beaten up and arrested en masse, and that everything is
terrible in Ukraine. Those who did not succumb to such defamation of our
country and came, saw that Ukraine is a beautiful country. For example,
the European crisis has been overcome much more easily in our country,
because everything is much cheaper in Ukraine. Of course, we have won in
this regard. It is necessary to make the right conclusions from any
activities and events,” the speaker said.
Lytvyn also said that “Ukraine, after organizing the championship in a
record short time, definitely won from it. This is beyond question.”
