Politics missing the chance to boost Poland's image with Euro 2012

In his column for the daily Dziennik Polish political adviser Eryk Mistewicz fears Poland will miss the opportunity to improve its image with a successful Euro 2012 football championship: "The Euro 2012 is the most important social, economic, political and, in the end, sports event that Poland has taken part in since 1989. … If we ask what politics is today the answer is: the realisation of important projects like this. [But] even if we manage to implement around 360 of the most important projects (infrastructure, modernisation of train stations and tracks, the construction of transport routes and motorways and the building of concert halls, hotels and stadiums) nothing [no positive image of the country] will remain in the consciousness of the spectators who come to attend the event from all over the world."

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