24.12.2008
Lviv will receive a multi-million loan to prepare for Euro-2012, but the public cannot influence the preparation for the championship and is losing interest in it
- The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has approved granting a loan to the city of Lviv for the development of the city’s transport infrastructure. The loan amounts to 50 million euros. The credit committee made this decision at one of its recent meetings. The 50-million-euro loan is only the first tranche from the bank, and in total the EBRD has declared its readiness to open a credit line for Lviv of 100 million euros, the Department of External Relations of the Lviv City Council reported.
- It is planned that the money will first of all be directed to the construction of a transport interchange on one of the ring roads near the future new stadium, which will be built for the UEFA Euro-2012 Football Championship. However, city deputies still have to discuss the terms of the loan and approve the agreement itself. The arrival of the bank’s consultants is scheduled for January 19. The agreement will be signed directly after the discussion of the terms, methods, and features of financing. Therefore, money for solving one of the city’s priority problems in preparing for Euro-2012 — the reconstruction of roads — is expected to start coming in the first half of next year, according to the city administration.
- However, as recent sociological surveys show, the residents of Lviv themselves are losing interest in Euro-2012. Problems of preparation are of interest to only 30 percent of those surveyed, whereas quite recently this figure was 15 percent higher, Oleksii Antypovych told Deutsche Welle in an interview.
- “This means that people have lowered their expectations regarding the championship being held in Lviv. If this trend continues, and the number of those who are not concerned about this issue becomes equal to the number of those who are interested in the preparations, then the hosting of the championship could be given to another city and there would be no significant objections in Lviv,” Antypovych noted.
- The public believes that it cannot influence the preparation for the championship, the sociologist states. And if Lviv is indeed deprived of the right to host matches, 34 percent of Lviv residents believe that the mayor of the city personally should bear responsibility for this.
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